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IPC Section 340 - Wrongful confinement
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IPC Section 340 deals with wrongful confinement.
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340. Wrongful confinement. Whoever wrongfully restrains any person in suc h a manner as to
prevent that person from proceeding s beyond certain circumscribing limits, is said "wrongfully to
confine" that person.
Illustration s
(a) A causes Z to go within a walled space, and locks Z in Z is thus prevented from proceeding in any
direction beyond the circumscribing line of wall. A wrongfully confines Z.
(b) A places men with firearms at the outlets of a building, and tells Z that they will fire at Z if Z
attempts leave the building. A wrongfully confines Z.
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