1[The provisions of this Code apply also to any offence committed by—
2[(1) any citizen of India in any place without and beyond India;
(2) any person on any ship or aircraft registered in India wherever it may be.]
3[(3) any person in any place without and beyond India committing offence targeting a computer resource located in India.]
4[Explanation.—In this section—
(a) the word “offence” includes every act committed outside India which, if committed in India, would be punishable under this Code;
(b) the expression “computer resource” shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (k) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000).]
5[Illustration]
6***A, 7[who is 8[a citizen of India]], commits a murder in Uganda. He can be tried and convicted of murder in any place in 9[India] in which he may be found.
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Footnotes in the official text
- 1.Subs. by Act 4 of 1898, s. 2, for section 4 (w.e.f.18-2-1898).
- 2.Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for cls. (1) to (4).
- 3.Ins. by Act 10 of 2009, s. 51 (w.e.f. 27-10-2009).
- 4.Subs. by s. 51, ibid., for the Explanation (w.e.f. 27-10-2009).
- 5.Subs. by Act 36 of 1957, s. 3 and Schedule II, for “lllustrations” (w.e.f. 17-9-1957).
- 6.The brackets and letter “(a)” omitted by s. 3 and the Second Sch., ibid. (w.e.f. 17-9-1951).
- 7.Subs. by the A.O. 1948, for “a coolie, who is a Native Indian subject”.
- 8.Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for “a British subject of Indian domicile”.
- 9.The words “British India” have been successively amended by the A.O. 1948, the A.O. 1950 and Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and the Sch., (w.e.f. 1-4-1951) to read as above.
- 10.Illustrations (b), (c) and (d) omitted by the A.O. 1950.