BARE ACT ON THE INDIAN PENAL CODE1860

The First Law Commission prepared the draft of the Indian Penal Code which was chaired by Thomas Babington Macaulay in the year 1834. Elements were also derived from the Napoleonic Code and the Louisiana Civil Code of 1825. The first final draft of the IPC was submitted before then the Governor-General of India in Council in 1837 but the draft was revised subsequently. The drafting was completed in the year 1850 and was presented to the Legislative Council in the year 1856. It was only in 1860 when the draft became law and came into operation on January 1 1862. The IPC in its various sections defines specific crimes and provides punishment for them. It is sub-divided into 23 chapters that comprise of 511 sections. T