BNS Section 112 : Petty Organised Crime

Definition of BNS Section 112

Section 112 of the BNS 2023 States:

Whoever, being a member of a group or gang, either singly or jointly, commits any act of theft, snatching, cheating, unauthorised selling of tickets, unauthorised betting or gambling, selling of public examination question papers or any other similar criminal act, is said to commit petty organised crime

Explanation and Illustration of BNS Section 112

Explanation.—For the purposes of this sub-section 'theft' includes trick theft, theft from vehicle, dwelling house or business premises, cargo theft, pick pocketing, theft through card skimming, shoplifting and theft of Automated Teller Machine.
(2) Whoever commits any petty organised crime shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than one year but which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.

Illustration

• Situation: A group of five individuals (A, B, C, D, and E) are involved in a coordinated effort to steal mobile phones from pedestrians. They have a plan where one person distracts the victim while the others quickly snatch the phone
• Action: The group works together to commit the theft multiple times over the course of a week
• Offense: This coordinated activity of theft falls under the definition of ‘petty organised crime’ as described in Section 112 of the BNS 2023. Each member of the group is involved in the act, either singly or jointly, which makes it a group-based criminal activity.

• In this example, all five individuals (A, B, C, D, and E) would be guilty of committing petty organised crime as per Section 112 for their involvement in the theft as a group.

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