Indian Penal Code
IPC 442 is now BNS 329(2).
House-trespass · BNS 329 brings it together with IPC 441, 447 and 448.
Merged
Old wording kept in full
Old · IPC 1860 · Ch. XVII
s. 442
House-trespass
Whoever commits criminal trespass by entering into or remaining in any building, tent or vessel used as a human dwelling or any building used as a place for worship, or as a place for the custody of property, is said to commit “house-trespass”.
Explanation.—The introduction of any part of the criminal trespasser's body is entering sufficient to constitute house-trespass.
Text from the official India Code PDF
New · BNS 2023 · Ch. XVII
s. 329(2)of section 329
Criminal trespass and house-trespass.
(2) Whoever commits criminal trespass by entering into or remaining in any building, tent or vessel used as a human dwelling or any building used as a place for worship, or as a place for the custody of property, is said to commit house-trespass.
Explanation.—The introduction of any part of the criminal trespasser's body is entering sufficient to constitute house-trespass.
Text from India Code