293. Sale, hire, distribution or circulation of obscene objects or literature to children. Punishment: jail up to three years or fine up to Rs 2,000 or both.
294. Obscene acts or utterances in public places. Up to three months in prison with a fine.
302. Murder. Punishment: death or imprisonment for life.
323. Causing hurt. Up to one year’s imprisonment.
324. Voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means. The latter would be any substance which is dangerous to the human body to inhale, swallow or receive into the blood by any means. Imprisonment for up to three years, or fine, or both.
325. Causing grevious hurt. Up to seven years.
326. Causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons. Up to imprisonment for life.
342. Wrongful confinement. Whoever wrongfully restrains any person in such a manner as to prevent that person from proceeding beyond certain circumscribing limits is said to have wrongfully confined a person. Imprisonment up to one year, fine up to one thousand rupees, or both.
343. Wrongful confinement for three or more days. Up to two years in prison.
344. Wrongful confinement for ten or more days. Up to three years in prison.
354. Assault or use of criminal force with an intent to outrage modesty. Alternatively referred to as Molestation when the archaic language of the phrase—Outraging of Modesty—outrages the user. Up to two years.
363. Kidnapping. Jail up to seven years.
366. Abduction. Procuring of a minor girl. Generally used on pimps. Jail up to ten years.
375, 376. Rape. Penile penetration in a vagina is the only kind which constitutes rape legally. Digital, oral or object penetration are not considered. Punishment: from seven years onwards. This can be lessened too. A court has reduced the jail term of a rapist from seven years to six months when he agreed to pay compensation of four lakh rupees after negotiations with her father who used her ‘future subsistence’ as reasons for entering into the dialogue. The court agreed, ‘The compensation is necessary for a woman who will never get married in future.’ Additionally, Hindi movies are not the only place where the woman is married off to her rapist and he, consequently, allowed to go scot-free.
377. Unnatural offences. Generally considered in cases of sodomy. Up to five years.
417. Cheating. Up to one year in jail.
452. House trespass after preparation for hurt, assault or wrongful restraint. Up to seven years.
458. House trespass or house breaking by night after preparations for causing hurt. Up to fourteen years.
503, 506. Criminal intimidation. Threatening with injury to a human body, reputation or property. Up to two years or fine or both. If threat be to cause grevious hurt or death or destruction of property by fire, the imprisonment can go up to seven years.
509. Indecent behaviour. Violating modesty with word or gesture. This would include exposing penis or other sexual parts of a body, applicable for the grandfather at home or the ‘flasher’ standing outside a school waiting for children to pass to expose himself. Up to one year in jail.
511. Attempt to rape. Half the punishment awarded for rape.