Offences Related to Religion | Section 295 to 298 IPC | Indian Judiciary – Free PDF Download

Offences Related to Religion –

• Indian Penal Code, 1860, Chapter XV lays down all the provisions and these are expanded on from sections 295-298.

Offences Related to Religion

• Destroy/ Defile Religious Place Section 295 and 297
• Outraging Religious Feelings Section 295A and 298
• Disturbing Religious Assemblies Section 296

295. Injuring or defiling place of worship, with intent to insult the religion of any class.—

• E.g. – A, a Muslim, enters a hindu temple with footwears to save the a child who slipped in to the pond by a sharp.  – No Intention
• Destruction, Damage or Defilement – Not only physically or materially damaging the property, but also making property dirty, unclean or foul.
• Any thing that would affect the pure state of the place
• Place of Worship and Sacred Places – Temples, churches, mosques, books like the Bible, the Koran, the Granth, the Gita etc. are held to be sacred even though they are not worshipped per se.

297. Trespassing on burial places, etc

• The word ‘trespass’ here means-  an unjustifiable intrusion upon a property that is in the control of another.

295A. Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs.—

298. Uttering words, etc., with deliberate intent to wound religious feelings.—

298. Disturbing religious assembly.—

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