Indian Penal Code
IPC 340 is now BNS 127(1).
Wrongful confinement · BNS 127 brings it together with IPC 342, 343, 344, 345, 346, 347 and 348.
Merged
Old wording kept in full
Old · IPC 1860 · Ch. XVI
s. 340
Wrongful confinement
Whoever wrongfully restrains any person in such a manner as to prevent that person from proceedings beyond certain circumscribing limits, is said “wrongfully to confine” that person.
Illustrations
(a) A causes Z to go within a walled space, and locks Z in Z is thus prevented from proceeding in any direction beyond the circumscribing line of wall. A wrongfully confines Z.
(b) A places men with firearms at the outlets of a building, and tells Z that they will fire at Z if Z attempts leave the building. A wrongfully confines Z.
Text from the official India Code PDF
New · BNS 2023 · Ch. VI
s. 127(1)of section 127
Wrongful confinement.
(1) Whoever wrongfully restrains any person in such a manner as to prevent that person from proceedings beyond certain circumscribing limits, is said “wrongfully to confine” that person..
Illustrations..
(a) A causes Z to go within a walled space, and locks Z in. Z is thus prevented from proceeding in any direction beyond the circumscribing line of wall. A wrongfully confines Z.
(b) A places men with firearms at the outlets of a building, and tells Z that they will fire at Z if Z attempts to leave the building. A wrongfully confines Z..
Text from India Code