Editing Indian Penal Code (section)

== Cultural references ==
Some references to specific sections (called ''dafā/dafa'a'' in Hindi-Urdu, دفعہ or दफ़ा/दफ़आ) of the IPC have entered popular speech in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. For instance, con men are referred to as 420s (''chaar-sau-bees'' in Hindi-Urdu) after [[Section 420]] which covers cheating.<ref name="ref85vexal">{{Citation | title=The return of the Raj: a novel | author=Henry Scholberg | publisher=NorthStar Publications, 1992 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_0BbAAAAMAAJ | quote=''...&nbsp;People were saying, 'Twenty plus Four equals Char Sau Bees.' Char Sou Bees is 420 which is the number of the law that has to do with counterfeiting&nbsp;...''| year=1992 }}</ref> Similarly, specific reference to section 302 ("''tazīrāt-e-Hind dafā tīn-sau-do ke tehet sazā-e-maut''", "''punishment of death under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code''"), which covers the death penalty, have become part of common knowledge in the region due to repeated mentions of it in [[Bollywood]] movies and regional [[pulp literature]].<ref name="ref45robem">{{Citation | title=The Great Indian Laughter Challenge – Jokes Book | author=Star Plus | publisher=Popular Prakashan | isbn=978-81-7991-343-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yiwV7dMOdhwC | quote=''...&nbsp;Tazeerat-e-hind, dafa 302 ke tahat, mujrim ko maut ki saza sunai jaati hai&nbsp;...''}}</ref><ref name="ref84vovim">{{Citation | title=Ji Mantriji: The diaries of Shri Suryaprakash Singh |author1=Alok Tomar |author2=Monisha Shah |author3=Jonathan Lynn | publisher=Penguin Books in association with BBC Worldwide, 2001 | isbn=978-0-14-302767-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9FduAAAAMAAJ | quote=''...&nbsp;we'd have the death penalty back tomorrow. Dafa 302, taaziraat-e-Hind&nbsp;... to be hung by the neck until death&nbsp;...''|year=2001 }}</ref> ''[[Dafaa 302|Dafa 302]]'' was also the name of a Bollywood movie released in 1975.<ref name="ref39dofam">{{Citation | title=Great masters of Indian cinema: the Dadasaheb Phalke Award winnersGreat Masters of Indian Cinema Series | author=D. P. Mishra | publisher=Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 2006 | isbn=978-81-230-1361-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=whtmAAAAMAAJ | quote=''...&nbsp;Badti Ka Naam Dadhi ( 1975), Chhoti Si Baat ( 1975), Dafa 302 ( 1 975), Chori Mera Kaam ( 1975), Ek Mahal Ho Sapnon Ka (1975)&nbsp;...''| date=2006-09-01 }}</ref> Similarly, ''[[Shree 420]]'' was the name of a 1955 Bollywood movie starring [[Raj Kapoor]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048613/|title=Shree 420|via=www.imdb.com}}</ref> and ''[[Chachi 420]]'' was a Bollywood movie released in 1997 starring [[Kamal Haasan]].<ref>{{Citation|last1=Haasan|first1=Kamal|title=Chachi 420|date=1997-12-19|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0233422/|last2=Puri|last3=Puri|last4=Tabu|first2=Amrish|first3=Om|access-date=2017-04-03}}</ref>