Offence

Section of the Indian Penal Code applicable

Person by whom offence may be compounded

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Causing miscarriage.

312

The woman to whom miscarriage is caused.

Voluntarily causing grievous hurt.

325

The person to whom hurt is caused.

Causing hurt by doing an act so rashly and negligently as to safety of others.

337

Ditto.

Causing grievous hurt by doing an act so rashly and negligently as to endanger human life or the personal safety of others.

338

Ditto.

Assault or criminal force in attempting wrongfully to confine a person.

357

The person assaulted or to whom the force was used.

Theft, by clerk or servant of property in possession of master.

381

The owner of the property stolen.

Criminal breach of trust

406

The owner of property in respect of which breach of trust has been committed.

Criminal breach of trust by a clerk or servant.

408

The owner of the property in respect of which the breach of trust has been committed.

Cheating a person whose interest the offender was bound, either by law or by legal contract, to protect.

418

The person cheated.

Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property or the making, alteration or

420

Cheating and dishonestly inducing

destruction of a valualble security.

Marrying again during the life-time of a husband or wife.

494

The husband or wife of the person so marrying.

Defamation against the President or the Vice- President or the Governor of a State or the Administrator of a Union territory or a Minister in respect of his public functions when instituted upon a complaint made by the Public Prosecutor.

500

The person defamed.

Uttering words or sounds or making gestures or exhibiting any object intending to insult the modesty of a woman or intruding upon the privacy of a woman.

509

The woman whom it was intended to insult or whose privacy was intruded upon.�;