Indian Penal Code, 1860, sub-divided into twenty three chapters, comprises five hundred and eleven sections. The code starts with an introduction, provides explanations and exceptions used in the code, and covers a wide range of offences.
Chapter I
Introduction
1Β β IPC.Title and extent of operated of the Code
Except the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
2Β β Punishment of offences committed within India
3Β β Punishment of offences committed beyond, but which by law may be tried within India
4Β β Extension of Code to extraterritorial offences.
5Β β the Act on the effects of certain methods to
Chapter II
General Explanation
6 β definition in the codes to be understood subject to exceptions
7 β Sense of expression once explained
8 β Gender
9 β Number
10- Man, Womens clothes
11 β animal protection
12 β Public
13 β Queen (Repealed by the A.O. 1950)
14 β Servant of Government
15 βΒ Coercion
16 βΒ Government of India
17 β Government
18 β India
19 β Judge
20 β Court of Justice
21 β Public Servant
22 β Movable Property
23 β Wrongful gain, Wrongful loss
24 β Dishonestly
25 β Fraudulently
26 β Reason to believe
27 β Property in possession of wife, clerk or servant
28 β Counterfeit
29 β Document
29A β Electronic record
30 β Valuable security
31 β A Will
32 β Words referring to acts include illegal omissions
33 β Act Omission
34 β Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention
35 β When such an act is criminal by reason of its being done with a criminal knowledge or intention
36 β Effect caused partly by act and partly by omission
37 β Co-operation by doing one of several acts constituting an offence
38 β Persons concerned in criminal act may be guilty of different offences
39 β Voluntarily
40 β Offence
41 β Special law
42 β Local law
43 β Illegal, Legally bound to do
44 β Injury
45 β Life
46 β Death
47 β Animal
48 β Vessel
49 β Year, Month
50 β Section
51 β Oath
52 β Good faith,
52A β Harbour