This section covers deliberate act to outage religious feelings in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs.
Whoever, with deliberate and malicious intention of outraging the religious feelings of any class of citizens of India, by words, either spoken or written, or by signs or visible representations or through electronic means or otherwise, insults or attempts to insult the religion or the religious beliefs of that class, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.
What was the old IPC code for Section 299 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, deliberate act to outage religious feelings was covered in S. 295A*.