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SECTION 390 IPC - Indian Penal Code - Robbery


Last Updated: 01 Nov, 2024
By Advocate Chikirsha Mohanty


As per new Indian Criminal law, IPC Section 390 has been replaced with BNS Section 309 with effect from July 1, 2024.
(Formal changes reorganized in form of clauses (1), (2), and (3) and sub-heading is dropped.)

Please refer to BNS 309 for updated procedures & punishments.

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  1. IPC 390 in Simple Words
In all robbery there is either theft or extortion.

When theft is robbery — Theft is “robbery” if, in order to the committing of the theft, or in committing the theft, or in carrying away or attempting to carry away property obtained by the theft, the offender, for that end, voluntarily causes or attempts to cause to any person death or hurt or wrongful restraint, or fear of instant death or of instant hurt, or of instant wrongful restraint.

When extortion is robbery — Extortion is “robbery” if the offender, at the time of committing the extortion, is in the presence of the person put in fear, and commits the extortion by putting that person in fear of instant death, of instant hurt, or of instant wrongful restraint to that person or to some other person, and, by so putting in fear, induces the person, so put in fear then and there to deliver up the thing extorted.



IPC 390 in Simple Words

In the Indian Penal Code, robbery is defined as theft or extortion accompanied by causing fear of instant harm or wrongful restraint to a person.


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