456. Lurking house-trespass or house-breaking by night after preparation for hurt,
assault or wrongful restraint: Whoever commits lurking house-trespass by night or
house-breaking by night, having made preparation for causing hurt to any person, or for
assaulting any person, or for wrongfully restraining any person, or for putting any person
in fear of hurt, or of assault, or of wrongful restraint, shall be punished with imprisonment
of either description for a term which may extend to fourteen years, and shall also be
liable to fine.
457. Lurking house-trespass or house-breaking by night in order to commit offence
punishable with imprisonment: Whoever commits lurking house-trespass by night, or
house-breaking by night, in order to the committing of any offence punishable with
imprisonment, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which
may extend to five years, and shall also be liable to fine; and, if the offence intended to be
committed is theft, the term of the imprisonment may be extended to fourteen years.
458. Lurking house-trespass or house-breaking by night after preparation for hurt,
assault or wrongful restraint: Whoever commits lurking house-trespass by night or
house-breaking by night, having made preparation for causing hurt to any person, or for
assaulting any person, or for wrongfully restraining any person, or for putting any person
in fear of hurt, or of assault, or of wrongful restraint, shall be punished with imprisonment
of either description for a term which may extend to fourteen years, and shall also be
liable to fine.
459. Hurt caused whilst committing lurking house trespass or house-breaking:
Whoever, whilst committing lurking house-trespass or house-breaking, causes hurt to any
person or attempts to commit oaf/ of, or hurt to, any person shall be punished with
imprisonment for life, or imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to
ten years, and shall also be liable to the same punishment for committing qatl or causing
hurt or attempting to cause qatl or hurt as is specified in Chapter XVI of this Code.
460. Persons jointly concerned in lurking house-trespass or house-breaking by
night punishable for qatl or hurt caused by one of them : If, at the time of the
committing of lurking house-trespass by night or house-breaking by night, any person
guilty of such offence shall voluntarily cause or attempt to commit qatl of, or hurt to, any
person, every person jointly concerned in committing such lurking house-trespass by night
or house-breaking by night, shall be punished with imprisonment for life or with
imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years and shall also
be liable to the same punishment for committing qatl or causing hurt or attempting to
cause qatl or hurt as is specified in Chapter XVI of this Code].
Scs. 459 & 460 subs. by the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, II of 1997
461. Dishonestly breaking open receptacle containing property : Whoever
dishonestly or with intent to commit mischief breaks open or unfastens and closed
receptacle which contains or which, he believes to contain property, shall be punished
with imprisonment or either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with
fine, or with both.