Indian Penal Code, 1860

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Sections	Particulars
Chapter XVII	Of Offences Against Property
409	Criminal breach of trust by public servant, or by banker, merchant or agent
Description	Whoever, being in any manner entrusted with property, or with any dominion over property in his capacity of a public servant or in the way of his business as a banker, merchant, factor, broker, attorney or agent, commits criminal breach of trust in respect of that property, shall be punished with 152[imprisonment for life], or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine. Of the Receiving of Stolen Property