Chapter 38 The First Schedule

Updated with Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2018

Classification Of Offences

Explanatory Notes—

  1. In regard to offences under the Indian Penal Code, the entries in the second and third Columns against a section the number of which is given in the first column are not intended as the definition of, and the punishment prescribed for, the offence in the Indian Penal Code, but merely as indication of the substance of the section.
  2. In this Schedule,
    1. the expression “Magistrate 1st Class” and “Any Magistrate” include Metropolitan Magistrates but not Executive Magistrate;
    2. the word “cognizable” stands for “a police officer may arrest without warrant”; and
    3. the word “non-cognizable” stands for “a police officer shall not arrest without warrant”.

The following tables lists the offences that come under the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) and their punishments. Whether the offence is cognizable or non-cognizable, bailable or non-bailable and which Court has jurisdiction to try it.