● Modified in BNS
Section 420 IPC — the best-known cheating provision — punished cheating and thereby dishonestly inducing delivery of property (or alteration/destruction of valuable security) with imprisonment up to 7 years and fine.
BNS Section 318(4) retains the offence and punishment: imprisonment up to 7 years and fine. Simple cheating is punished under 318(2) with up to 3 years, and cheating with knowledge of wrongful loss to a person whose interest the offender was bound to protect under 318(3) with up to 5 years.
Substance retained; the famous "420" is renumbered to BNS 318(4), with all cheating offences consolidated into a single section.
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