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Indian Penal Code

(IPC)

House trespass.

Chapter 17: Of Offences against Property

Section: 442


Whoever commits criminal trespass by entering into or remaining in any building, tent or vessel used as a human dwelling or any building used as a place for worship, or as a place for the custody of property, is said to commit “house-trespass”.Explanation.—The introduction of any part of the criminal trespasser’s body is entering sufficient to constitute house-trespass.

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