Indian Penal Code
IPC 458 is now BNS 331(6).
Lurking house-trespass or house-breaking by night after preparation for hurt, assault, or wrongful restraint · BNS 331 brings it together with IPC 453, 454, 455, 456, 457, 459 and 460.
Merged
94% of the old wording kept
Old · IPC 1860 · Ch. XVII
s. 458
Lurking house-trespass or house-breaking by night after preparation for hurt, assault, or wrongful restraint
Whoever commits lurking house-trespass by night, or house-breaking by night, having made preparation for causing hurt to any person or for assaulting any person, or for wrongfully restraining any person, or for putting any person in fear of hurt, or of assault, or of wrongful restraint, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to fourteen years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Text from the official India Code PDF
New · BNS 2023 · Ch. XVII
s. 331(6)of section 331
Punishment for house-trespass or house-breaking.
(6) Whoever commits lurking house-trespass or house-breaking after sunset and before sunrise, having made preparation for causing hurt to any person or for assaulting any person, or for wrongfully restraining any person, or for putting any person in fear of hurt, or of assault, or of wrongful restraint, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to fourteen years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Text from India Code