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IPC 392 vs BNS 309

Punishment for robbery

● Retained in BNS

Indian Penal Code, 1860 · § 392

Section 392 IPC punished robbery with rigorous imprisonment up to 10 years and fine; if committed on a highway between sunset and sunrise, up to 14 years.

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 · § 309

BNS Section 309(4) punishes robbery with rigorous imprisonment up to 10 years and fine; Section 309(5) retains the enhanced punishment (up to 14 years) for highway robbery between sunset and sunrise.

What changed?

Carried over substantially unchanged; renumbered from IPC 392 to BNS 309(4)–(5) with definition and punishment consolidated in one section.

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