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IPC Section 339 - Wrongful restraint
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IPC Section 339 deals with wrongful restraint.
Full official legal text
339. Wrongful restraint. Whoever voluntarily obstructs any person so as to prevent that person
from proceeding in any direction in which that person has a right to proceed, is said wrongfully to restrain
that person.
Exception.--The obstruction of a private way over land or water which a person in good faith
believes himself to have a lawful right to obstruct, is not an offence within the meaning of this section.
Illustration
A obstructs a path alo ng which Z has a right to pass, A not believing in good faith that he has a right to stop the path. Z is
thereby prevented from passing. A wrongfully restrains Z.
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