MO CLASSIFICATION OF CRIME

 

CLASSES OF CRIME		Section of Law
MAJOR AND MINOR CLASSIFICATION
Class I - Offences attended with violence -
(d)	Dacoity	395
(m)	Murder for gain	396, 397
(p)	Poisoning or Drugging
( r )	Robbery	392 - 394
Class II - House - Breaking and Theft
	HB BY DAY	454, 380
	HB BY NIGHT	457, 380
(a)	Auger
(b)	Bolt hole
( c )	Chisel used
(d)	Door lifted off hinges
(d2)	Lifting latch by inserting hand or implement*
(d3)	Opening door not locked
(e)	Eaves
(n)	Holes on the wall or man hole
(k)	Key (false) used to open lock or picking
(l)	Breaking lock or fastening
( r)	Roof - hole
(s)	Sealing ( wall or roof)
(t)	Threshold hole
(u)	Unclassified
(w1)	Window bars removed
(w2)	Window frame removed
(w3)	Insterting hand or stick through window (Day house - breaking may be indicated thus - II Day.  School or Temple House - breaking may be indicated thus - II Sch. II (Te.)
Class III - House Theft. -		380
(a)	Automobiles
(a1)	Automobiles, Spare parts
(a2)	Automobiles - Tools
(b1)	Bogus visitor
(b2)	Bank
(b3)	Bungalow
(c1)	Counter ( Bank or Post Office)
(c2)	Clothes
(c3)	Clocks, time-pieces, watches
(c4)	Cash
(e)	Electrical meters
(e1)	Electric gas and welding equipments
(e2)	Electric motors or oil engines and parts thereof.
(e3)	Electrical appliances - Miscellaneous
(i)	Fountain pens
(g)	Grains
(h)	Hostels and Hospitals
(i)	Jewels
(i)	Lanterns
®	Radios, transistors or accessories
)s1)	Schools
(s2)	Shops
(s3)	Servant / Clerk	381
(s4)	Sleeping persons (from)
(t1)	Temple idols
(t2)	Temple Jewels
(t3)	Temple Kalasams
(t4)	Typewriters
(u)	Unclassified
(v)	Vessels
	(G.O. Ms. No. 1812, Home, dated 10th June 1964)
Class IV - Ordinary thefts .-		379
(a)	Agricultural implements ( thefts of.)
(a1)	Automobiles or spare parts
(a2)	Automobiles - Tools
(b)	Bandies of or from
(b)	Bulbs
(c1)	Cycle thefts
(c2)	Clothes
(c3)	Cameras
(c4)	Cash
(c5)	Copper boilers
(d)	Children from
(d1)	Delcos
(d2)	Dynamos
(e)	Electrical Meters
(e1)	Electrical gas and welding equipments
(e2)	Electric motors or oil engines and parts thereof
(e3)	Electrical appliances - Miscellaneous
(f)	Fairs and festivals
(f1)	Filth rubbing to divert attention
(f2)	Fuse carriers
(g1)	Grains
(g2)	Garden produce
(h)	Thefts from bathing ghats
(f)	Jewels
(l)	Lanterns
(m)	Motor cars ( from)
(ml)	Machinery - Miscellaneous and parts thereof
(p)	Pocket picking
(sl)	Snatching
(s2)	Sleeping persons (from)
(t)	Time-pieces or watches or clocks
(u)	Unclassified
(v)	Vessels
(w)	Wire
	(G.O. Ms. No. 748, Home dated 2nd March 1963)
Class V - Cattle thefts -		379 / 380
(b)	Buffaloes
(d)	Donkeys
(g)	Goats or sheep
(h)	Horses
(os)	Oxen for sale or ransom
(ok)	Oxen for skin or meat
(p)	Pigs
Class VI - Receiving or possession of stolen property		411
Class VII - Cheating -		417, 420
(a)	Advertisements or calling for applications for employment
(b)	Bogus agent
( c )	Doubling currency confidence - Trickers
(d)	Degree or Diploma or educational certificates ( Academic and Technical ) forgery
(f)	Flating chit companies
(g)	Gilt jewels
(p)	Personation
(p1)	Passports
(u)	Unclassified
	(G.O. Ms. No. 748, Home, dated 2nd March 1963)
Class VIII - Counterfeiting		489 (a) (b) (c) (d) (e)
(c )	Making or passing counter feit coins
(n)	Making or passing counterfeit notes
Class IX - Criminal breach of trust or misappropriation		406
( c)	Cycles
(d)	Dhoby
(e)	Jewels
(s)	Servant or Clerk	408
(u)	Unclassified
	Public Servant	409
Class X Kidnapping
(b)	Beggary	363 (a)
(t1)	Trafficking in women for prostitution
(t2)	Trafficking in children for sale
(t3)	Trafficking in women and children for ransom	364 (b)