Penal Code · s 297

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s 297Trespassing on burial places etc.

Whoever, with the intention of wounding the feelings of any person, or of insulting the religion of any person, or with the knowledge that the feelings of any person are likely to be wounded, or that the religion of any person is likely to be insulted thereby -

(a)

commits any trespass in any place of worship or on any place of sepulture, or any place set apart for the performance of funeral rites or as a depository for the remains of the dead;

(b)

offers any indignity to any human corpse; or

(c)

causes disturbance to any persons assembled for the performance of funeral ceremonies,

shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year and fine.