Indian Penal Code
IPC 409 is now BNS 316(5).
Criminal breach of trust by public servant, or by banker, merchant or agent · BNS 316 brings it together with IPC 405, 406, 407 and 408.
Merged
Old wording kept in full
Old · IPC 1860 · Ch. XVII
s. 409
Criminal breach of trust by public servant, or by banker, merchant or agent
Whoever, being in any manner entrusted with property, or with any dominion over property in his capacity of a public servant or in the way of his business as a banker, merchant, factor, broker, attorney or agent, commits criminal breach of trust in respect of that property, shall be punished with 1[imprisonment for life], or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Text from the official India Code PDF
New · BNS 2023 · Ch. XVII
s. 316(5)of section 316
Criminal breach of trust.
(5) Whoever, being in any manner entrusted with property, or with any dominion over property in his capacity of a public servant or in the way of his business as a banker, merchant, factor, broker, attorney or agent commits criminal breach of trust in respect of that property, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Text from India Code