Section 2 IPC – Punishment of offences committed within India.

Section 2 IPC – Punishment of offences committed within India.


2. Punishment of offences committed within India.—Every person shall be liable to punishment under this Code and not otherwise for every act or omission contrary to the provisions thereof, of which he
shall be guilty within 1 [India] 2***.



1. The original words “the said territories” have successively been amended by the A.O. 1937, the A.O. 1948, the A.O 1950 and Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and the Sch., to read as above.
2. The words and figures “on or after the said first day of May, 1861” rep. by Act 12 of 1891, s. 2 and the First Sch.

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