Trespassing on burial places, etc
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Summary
Entering or trespassing in a place of worship, burial ground, funeral site, or any depository for human remains, or offering indignity to a corpse, with intent to wound feelings or insult a religion, or knowing those effects are likely, is an offence. Causing disturbance to people assembled for funeral rites is also covered. Punishment: imprisonment up to one year, or fine, or both.
Example
Rohan, angry after a land dispute, goes into the local cremation ground during an ongoing funeral, starts shouting insults at the mourners and removes floral garlands from the body. He would be guilty under this section and can be punished with up to one year imprisonment, or a fine, or both.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhoever, with the intention of wounding the feelings of any person, or of insulting the religion of any person, or with the knowledge that the feelings of any person are likely to be wounded, or that the religion of any person is likely to be insulted thereby, commits any trespass in any place of worship or on any place of sepulture, or any place set apart for the performance of funeral rites or as a depository for the remains of the dead, or offers any indignity to any human corpse, or causes disturbance to any persons assembled for the performance of funeral ceremonies, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.
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