(1) No person shall
commit, or cause to be committed, criminal breach of trust.
(2) For the purposes of sub-section (1), a person who does
any of the following acts shall be considered to commit, or cause the
commission of, criminal breach of trust:
(a) To dishonestly appropriate or otherwise convert to his
or her own use other's property which is under his or her
custody or protection or to dishonestly appropriate such
property in his or her own use, or allow such property to
be used by, or dispose, or cause the disposal, of such
property to, another person, in violation of any contract,
deed of conditions or law concerning the use of such
property,
(b) To cause any loss, damage or injury by a person, who is
entrusted with responsibility or has lawful duty of doing
any work or transaction of another person or who acts as
an agent of another in relation to any work or
transaction, to that other person by doing any act in
violation of his or her duty with the intention of causing
benefit to himself or herself or any one else.
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(3) A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the
offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to the following
sentence:
(a) A sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding
five years and a fine not exceeding fifty thousand
rupees, in the case of the commission of criminal breach
of trust by a person in the capacity of manager, director,
employee or agent of any organization or by a person
entrusted with the responsibility of carrying a property
from one place to another or keeping it safely in a
warehouse or any other place or with a legal duty to do
so,
(b) A sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding
three years or a fine not exceeding thirty thousand
rupees or both the sentences, in the case of the
commission of criminal breach of trust by any person
other than that set forth in clause (a).