According to Section 505 of the Indian Penal Code 1860, Statements conducing to public mischief — (1) Whoever makes, publishes or circulates any statement, rumor or report. (a) with intent to cause, or which is likely to cause, any officer, soldier, sailor or airman in the Army, Navy or Air Force of India to mutiny […]

According to Section 504 of the Indian Penal Code 1860, Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace — Whoever intentionally insults, and thereby gives provocation to any person, intending or knowing it to be likely that such provocation will cause him to break the public peace, or to commit any other offence, […]

According to Section 503 of the Indian Penal Code 1860, Criminal intimidation — Whoever threatens another with any injury to his person, reputation or property, or to the person or reputation of anyone in whom that person is interested, with intent to cause alarm to that person, or to cause that person to do any […]

According to Section 500 of the Indian Penal Code 1860, Punishment for defamation — Whoever defames another shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.

According to Section 499 of the Indian Penal Code 1860, Defamation — Whoever, by words either spoken or intended to be read, or by signs or by visible representations, makes or publishes any imputation concerning any person intending to harm, or knowing or having reason to believe that such imputation will harm, the reputation of […]

According to Section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code 1860, Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty — Whoever, being the husband or the relative of the husband woman, subjects such woman to cruelty, shall be punished with imprisonment a term which may extend to three years, and shall also […]

According to Section 498 of the Indian Penal Code 1860, Enticing or taking away or detaining with criminal intent a married woman — Whoever takes or entices away any woman who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife of any other man, from that man, or from any […]

According to Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code 1860, Adultery — Whoever has sexual intercourse with a person who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife of another man, without the consent or connivance of that man, such sexual intercourse not amounting 10 the offence of rape, […]

According to Section 471 of the Indian Penal Code 1860, Using as genuine a forged [document or electronic record] — Whoever fraudulently or dishonestly uses as genuine-any [document or electronic record] which he knows or has reason to believe to be a forged [document or electronic record], shall be punished in the same manner as […]

According to Section 468 of the Indian Penal Code 1860, Forgery for purpose of cheating — Whoever commits forgery, intending that the [document or electronic record forged] shall be used for the purpose of cheating, shall be punishment with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also […]