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CHAPTER VII OF OFFENCES RELATINGTO THE ARMY, NAVY AND AIR FORCE

Section 140: Wearing garb or carrying token used by soldier, sailor or airman

The Indian Penal Code, 1860 (repealed)

Repealed by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.

Whoever, not being a soldier, 1[sailor or airman] in the Military, 2[Naval or Air] service of the 3[Government of India], wears any garb or carries any token resembling any garb or token used by such a soldier, 1[sailor or airman] with the intention that it may be believed that he is such a soldier, 1[sailor or airman], shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by Act 10 of 1927, s. 2 and the First Sch., for “or sailor”.
  2. 2.Subs. by s. 2 and the First Sch., ibid., for “or Naval”.
  3. 3.Subs. by the A. O. 1950, for “Queen”.

Now in the BNS

As given in the correspondence table of the National Crime Records Bureau (Ministry of Home Affairs). Read both texts before relying on it. NCRB table

140. Wearing garb or carrying token used by soldier, sailor or airman.BNS 168

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