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Most Cited Provisions

Statute: Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS)

RankSectionTitleSC CitationsActions
#1Section 103(1) Whoever commits murder shall be punished with death or imprisonment for2,841
#2Section 318(1) Whoever, by deceiving any person, fraudulently or dishonestly induces the2,102
#3Section 109(1) Whoever does any act with such intention or knowledge, and under such1,943
#4Section 64(1) Whoever, except in the cases provided for in sub-section (2), commits rape, Punishment1,821
#5Section 316(1) Whoever, being in any manner entrusted with property, or with any dominion1,294
#6Section 80(1) Where the death of a woman is caused by any burns or bodily injury or occurs1,184
#7Section 303(1) Whoever, intending to take dishonestly any movable property out of the932
#8Section 129Whoever intentionally uses force to any person, without that person’s consent, Criminal force.319
#9Section 323Whoever dishonestly or fraudulently conceals or removes any property of himself316
#10Section 157Whoever, being a public servant and having the custody of any State prisoner or314
#11Section 54Whenever any person, who is absent would be liable to be punished as an abettor,314
#12Section 172Whoever at an election applies for a voting paper on votes in the name of any Personation at313
#13Section 193(1) Whenever any unlawful assembly or riot takes place, the owner or occupier of313
#14Section 287Whoever does, with fire or any combustible matter, any act so rashly or negligently313
#15Section 29The exceptions in sections 25, 26 and 27 do not extend to acts which are offences312
#16Section 181Whoever makes or mends, or performs any part of the process of making or311
#17Section 30Nothing is an offence by reason of any harm which it may cause to a person for311
#18Section 38The right of private defence of the body extends, under the restrictions specified in310
#19Section 71Whoever has been previously convicted of an offence punishable under310
#20Section 151Whoever, with the intention of inducing or compelling the President of India, or309
#21Section 26Nothing, which is not intended to cause death, is an offence by reason of any harm307
#22Section 309(1) In all robbery there is either theft or extortion.306
#23Section 295Whoever sells, lets to hire, distributes, exhibits or circulates to any child any such304
#24Section 302Whoever, with the deliberate intention of wounding the religious feelings of any303
#25Section 278Whoever knowingly sells, or offers or exposes for sale, or issues from a dispensary302
#26Section 292Whoever commits a public nuisance in any case not otherwise punishable by this301
#27Section 260Whoever, being a public servant, legally bound as such public servant to300
#28Section 6In calculating fractions of terms of punishment, imprisonment for life shall be300
#29Section 127(1) Whoever wrongfully restrains any person in such a manner as to prevent that Wrongful299
#30Section 9(1) Where anything which is an offence is made up of parts, any of which parts is299