BNS Section 316 – Criminal breach of trust
Chapter 17: Offences Against Property ·
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
BNS Section 316
IPC S.405
Whoever being in any manner entrusted with property or with any dominion over property dishonestly misappropriates or converts to his own use that property or dishonestly uses or disposes of that property in violation of any direction of law prescribing the mode in which such trust is to be discharged or of any legal contract which he has made touching the discharge of such trust commits criminal breach of trust.