Indian Penal Code, 1860 · Chapter XXIII: Of Attempts to Commit Offences
Section 511: Punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonment
The Indian Penal Code, 1860 was repealed and replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 from 1 July 2024. It still applies to offences and proceedings from before that date.
Whoever attempts to commit an offence punishable by this Code with [imprisonment for life] or imprisonment, or to cause such an offence to be committed, and in such attempt does any act towards the commission of the offence, shall, where no express provision is made by this Code for the punishment of such attempt, be punished with [imprisonment of any description provided for the offence, for a term which may extend to one-half of the imprisonment for life or, as the case may be, one-half of the longest term of imprisonment provided for that offence], or with such fine as is provided for the offence, or with both.
Corresponding sections were matched by comparing the wording of both official texts, and for the IPC and BNS, also against a published correspondence table. Wording, punishments and structure often changed, so read both sections before relying on the match.
Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the text of the Act as it stood before its repeal. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here.
Supreme Court judgments citing the section 511
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Sukhdev Yadav @ Pehalwan v. State of (NCT of Delhi) & Others
Whether, an accused/convict who has completed his “life imprisonment for a fixed term” such as twenty years of actual sentence without remission, as in the instant case, is entitled to be released from prison on…
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Central Bureau of Investigation v. Sekh Jamir Hossain and Ors.
The respondents herein were granted bail by the High Court for the offences punishable u/ss.143, 144, 147, 148, 149, 427, 326, 376 r/w ss.511 and 34 of IPC, 1860.
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Madhushree Datta v. The State of Karnataka & Anr.
Issue arose as to whether, based on the materials on record, prima facie, ingredients of the offences u/ss.323, 504, 506, 509, and 511 IPC are made out; whether the chargesheet and the related criminal proceedings…
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Rinku Baheti v. Sandesh Sharda
Issue arose whether the petitioner-wife is entitled to the transfer of the divorce petition; and whether this Court, upon the application filed by the respondent-husband, can exercise its powers u/Art. 142(1) of the…
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Amar Sardar v. The State of West Bengal
Whether the High Court was justified in affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence passed by the Fast Track Court.
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Munna Pandey v. State of Bihar
Whether the High Court erred in confirming the conviction and death sentence passed by trial court against appellant-accused for offences punishable u/ss.302, 376, IPC and s.4, POCSO Act, 2012, despite serious lapses in…
- Ramveer Upadhyay & Anr. v. State of U.P. & Anr.
- Nawabuddin v. State of Uttarakhand
- State of Madhya Pradesh v. Mahendra Alias Golu
- Vinod Dua v. Union of India & Ors.
- State of U.P. v. Gayatri Prasad Prajapati
- Arnab Ranjan Goswami v. Union of India and Ors.
- K. Virupaksha & Anr. v. The State of Karnataka & Anr.
- Haribhai Malaviya and Ors. v. The State of Gujarat and Anr.
- Kumar Ghimirey v. The State of Sikkim
- Navtej Singh Johar & Ors. v. Union of India Thr. Secretary Ministry of Law and Justice
- Sudhir Chaudhary Etc. Etc. v. State (Nct of Delhi)
- State of M.P. v. Madan Lal
- State of Rajasthan v. Sri Chand