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Section 408

Criminal breach of trust by clerk or servant

of Penal Code

ActIn forceProvision 397 of 490
Section 408

Whoever, being a clerk or servant, or employed as a clerk or servant, and being in any manner entrusted in such capacity with property, or with any dominion over property, commits criminal breach of trust in respect of that property, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than one year and not more than fourteen years and with whipping, and shall also be liable to fine.