⇒ দণ্ডবিধির ৩৫০ ধারার: অপরাধমূলক বলপ্রয়োগ:-
-কোন ব্যক্তি যদি অন্য কোন ব্যক্তির উপর সম্মতি ব্যতীত বল প্রয়োগ করে এবং কোন অপরাধ অনুষ্ঠানের উদ্দেশ্যে অথবা অনুরূপ শক্তি প্রয়োগ কর্তৃক, যে ব্যক্তির উপর বল প্রয়োগ করা হল, তার জখম বা ভয় বা বিরক্তি উৎপাদনের উদ্দেশ্যে অথবা তার শক্তি প্রয়োগের ফলে, যার উপর শক্তি প্রয়োগ করা হল, তার জখম, ভয় বা বিরক্তি উৎপাদিত হতে পারে জানা সত্ত্বেও যদি সে অনুরূপ বল প্রয়োগ করে, তবে সে ব্যক্তি অন্য ব্যক্তির উপর অপরাধমূলক বল প্রয়োগ করেছে বলে পরিগণিত হয়।
উদাহরণ:
(চ) ক উদ্দেশ্যমূলকভাবে জনৈক মহিলার ঘোমটা খুলে ফেলে। এখানে, ক উদ্দেশ্যমূলকভাবে মহিলাটির উপর বল প্রয়োগ করেছে। ক যদি মহিলাটির সম্মতি ব্যতীত তা করে থাকে এবং তার উদ্দেশ্য যদি হয়- অথবা যদি তার জানা থাকে যে- মহিলাটি আহত, ভীতিগ্রস্ত বা বিরক্ত হবে, তবে সে মহিলাটির উপর অপরাধমূলক বল প্রয়োগ করেছে।
(ছ) ক চ-এর সম্মতি ব্যতীত চ-এর উপর একটি কুকুরকে ঝাঁপিয়ে পড়তে লেলিয়ে দেয়। এখানে ক-এর উদ্দেশ্য যদি হয় চ-কে আহত, ভীতিগ্রস্ত বা বিরক্ত করা, তবে ক চ-এর উপর অপরাধমূলক বলপ্রয়োগ করেছে।
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The Penal Code Section-350. Criminal force:-Whoever intentionally uses force to any person, without that person's consent, in order to the committing of any offence, or intending by the use of such force to cause, or knowing it to be likely that by the use of such force he will cause injury, fear or annoyance to the person to whom the force is used, is said to use criminal force to that other.
Illustrations:
(a) Z is sitting in a moored boat on a river. A unfastens the moorings, and thus intentionally causes the boat to drift down the stream. Here A intentionally causes motion to Z, and he does this by disposing substances in such a manner that the motion is produced without any other action on any person's part. A has therefore intentionally used force to Z; and if he has done so without Z's consent, in order to the committing of any offence, or intending or knowing it to be likely that this use of force will cause injury, fear or annoyance to Z, A has used criminal force to Z.
(b) Z is riding in a chariot. A lashes Z's horses, and thereby causes them to quicken their pace. Here A has caused change of motion to Z by inducing the animals to change their motion. A has therefore used force to Z; and if A has done this without Z's consent, intending or knowing it to be likely that he may thereby injure, frighten or annoy Z, A has used criminal force to Z.
(c) Z is riding in a palanquin. A, intending to rob Z, seizes the pole and stops the palanquin. Here A has caused cessation of motion to Z, and he has done this by his own bodily power. A has therefore used force to Z; and as A has acted thus intentionally, without Z's consent, in order to the commission of an offence. A has used criminal force to Z.
(d) A intentionally pushes against Z in the street. Here A has by his own bodily power moved his own person so as to bring it into contact with Z. He has therefore intentionally used force to Z; and if he has done so without Z's consent, intending or knowing it to be likely that he may thereby injure, frighten or annoy Z, he has used criminal force to Z.
(e) A throws a stone, intending or knowing it to be likely that the stone will be thus brought into contact with Z, or with Z's clothes, or with something carried by Z, or that it will strike water, and dash up the water against Z's clothes or something carried by Z. Here, if the throwing of the stone produce the effect of causing any substance to come into contact with Z, or Z's clothes, A has used force to Z; and if he did so without Z's consent, intending thereby to injure, frighten or annoy Z, he has used criminal force to Z.
(f) A intentionally pulls up a woman's veil. Here A intentionally uses force to her, and if he does so without her consent intending or knowing it to be likely that he may thereby injure, frighten or annoy her, he has used criminal force to her.
(g) Z is bathing, A pours into the bath water which he knows to be boiling. Here A intentionally by his own bodily power causes such motion in the boiling water as brings that water into contact with Z, or with other water so situated that such contact must affect Z's sense of feeling: A has therefore intentionally used force to Z; and if he has done this without Z's consent intending or knowing it to be likely that he may thereby cause injury, fear or annoyance to Z, A has used criminal force.
(h) A incites a dog to spring upon Z, without Z's consent. Here, if A intends to cause injury, fear or annoyance to Z, he uses criminal force to Z.