The Indian Penal Code, 1860 · Ch. XVIII — OF OFFENCES RELATING TO DOCUMENTS AND TO PROPERTY MARKS
A mark used for denoting that movable property belongs to a particular person is called a property mark.
IPC Section 479 → BNS Section 345 per the official NCRB Sankalan table. BNS Section 345 consolidates multiple IPC sections.
This is the text of BNS Section 345, not of the section above. Read both before relying on either.
(1) A mark used for denoting that movable property belongs to a particular person is called a property mark.
(2) Whoever marks any movable property or goods or any case, package or other receptacle containing movable property or goods, or uses any case, package or other receptacle having any mark thereon, in a manner reasonably calculated to cause it to be believed that the property or goods so marked, or any property or goods contained in any such receptacle so marked, belong to a person to whom they do not belong, is said to use a false property mark.
(3) Whoever uses any false property mark shall, unless he proves that he acted without intent to defraud, be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.
Source & version
Official text: India Code (official) ↗
Official India Code text: The Indian Penal Code, 1860 (45 of 1860), English PDF (A1860-45.pdf) retrieved via Internet Archive Wayback Machine snapshot 2020-04-21 of indiacode.nic.in (portal unreachable from ingest network). Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and @nexlex/ingest inline parser on 2026-07-15. Repealed by BNS 2023 w.e.f. 2024-07-01. Automated parse; footnotes/amendment history excluded; illustrations restored via illustration-aware re-extraction on 2026-07-19; spot-verified; full clause-level proofread pending. Eleven State-inserted sections that had been published as central law were removed on 2026-08-02 after the D-052 guard identified them: 354E, 376F, 509A and 509B (Chhattisgarh Act 25 of 2015), 379A and 379B (Gujarat Act 6 of 2019) and 382B-382F (Tripura Act 4 of 2019). They are now recorded as State amendments against the sections they attach to, not as sections of the Code (D-053). Chapter XIV's heading has a space inserted in “DECENCY AND”. BOTH printings fuse it, and per-glyph advance widths fitted over this act's 105 distinct small-cap tokens show the fusion is in the PRINT (predicted box within 0.6pt of observed; a real space on that line is 2.75pt) rather than in the extraction — as it is for the eleven other fused headings in this act, which were separated from the contents page. Reviewed correction, D-078 — see scripts/ingest/src/repairs/repair-heading-typos.mjs.
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