CAP. 63
Penal Code
[Rev. 2012]
(2) Any person who, in any manner or by whatever means, instigates, expressly
or by implication, any person or class of persons to destroy, mutilate, deface,
alter, abandon or fail to preserve any statutory document or any class of statutory
documents, or who does any act with intent or knowing it to be likely that any person
or class of persons will be instigated thereby to destroy, mutilate, deface, alter,
abandon or fail to preserve any statutory document, is guilty of an offence and is
liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years.
(3) In this section, “statutory document” means any licence, permit, identity
card, record or return or certificate of or relating to employment, and any
other record of or document establishing status, identity, qualifications, service,
authorization, eligibility or entitlement, made, granted, given or issued under and
for the purposes of, and in a form prescribed by, any written law, and being of
current validity, and includes any part thereof, and any copy thereof made, granted,
given or issued as aforesaid.
[Act No. 24 of 1967, Sch.]
Division III – Offences Injurious to the Public in General
CHAPTER XIV – OFFENCES RELATING TO RELIGION
134. Insult to religion
Any person who destroys, damages or defiles any place of worship or any object
which is held sacred by any class of persons with the intention of thereby insulting
the religion of any class of persons or with the knowledge that any class of persons
is likely to consider such destruction, damage or defilement as an insult to their
religion, is guilty of a misdemeanour.
135. Disturbing religious assemblies
Any person who voluntarily causes disturbance to any assembly lawfully
engaged in the performance of religious worship or religious ceremony is guilty of
a misdemeanour.
136. Trespassing on burial places
Every person who, with the intention of wounding the feelings of any person
or of insulting the religion of any person, or with the knowledge that the feelings
of any person are likely to be wounded, or that the religion of any person is likely
to be insulted thereby, commits any trespass in any place of worship or in any
place of sepulture, or in any place set apart for the performance of funeral rites or
as a depository for the remains of the dead, or offers any indignity to any human
corpse, or causes disturbance to any persons assembled for the purpose of funeral
ceremonies, is guilty of a misdemeanour.
137. Hindering burial of dead body, etc.
Whoever unlawfully hinders the burial of the dead body of any person, or without
lawful authority in that behalf disinters, dissects or harms the dead body of any
person, or, being under a duty to cause the dead body of any person to be buried,
fails to perform that duty, is guilty of a misdemeanour.
[Issue 1]
P6-56
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