This section covers wrongful restraint in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
Of wrongful restraint and wrongful confinement.
Wrongful restraint.
(1) Whoever voluntarily obstructs any person so as to prevent that person from proceeding in any direction in which that person has a right to proceed, is said wrongfully to restrain that person.
Exception.—The obstruction of a private way over land or water which a person in good faith believes himself to have a lawful right to obstruct, is not an offence within the meaning of this section.
Illustration:
A obstructs a path along which Z has a right to pass, A not believing in good faith that he has a right to stop the path. Z is thereby prevented from passing. A wrongfully restrains Z.
(2) Whoever wrongfully restrains any person shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, or with both.
What was the old IPC code for Section 126 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, wrongful restraint was covered in S. 339, S. 341*.