If the offence is bailable, the accused can apply for grant of bail in appropriate court. The court may grant bail in bailable offences, after completing necessary formalities
Bailable offence |
IPC |
Punishment |
Bail |
Wearing Soldier's garb, sailor, airman |
140 |
Imprisonment for 3 months along with Rs. 500 fine |
Bailable |
Punishment for unlawful assembly |
144 |
Imprisonment for 6 months with fine |
bailable |
Owner or occupier of a land on which unlawful assembly held |
154 |
Rs. 1000 Fine |
Bailable |
Being hired to be part of unlawful assembly or riot |
158 |
Imprisonment for 6 months upto 2 years along with fine |
Bailable |
Public servant disobeying direction under law |
166A |
Imprisonment for 6 months upto 2 years |
bailable |
Public servant framing incorrect documents |
167 |
Imprisonment for 3 years and fine |
Bailable |
Furnishing false information |
177 |
Imprisonment for 6 months and fine Rs. 1000 |
bailable |
False statement on oath to public servants |
181 |
Imprisonment for 3 years along with fine |
bailable |
Disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant |
186 |
Imprisonment for 3 months and fine Rs. 500 |
bailable |
Threat of injury to public servant |
189 |
Imprisonment for 2 years with fine |
bailable |
Bailable offence |
IPC |
Punishment |
Bail |
Giving False Evidence |
191 |
Imprisonment for 7 years along with fine |
bailable |
Threatening any person to give false evidence |
195A |
Imprisonment for 7 years along with fine |
bailable |
Giving false information respecting an offence |
203 |
Imprisonment for 2 years with fine |
bailable |
Fraudulently making false claim in court |
210 |
Imprisonment for 2 years along with fine |
bailable |
Taking gift to screen an offender from punishment |
213 |
Imprisonment for 3 to 7 years with fine |
bailable |
Escape from confinement or custody negligently suffered by public servant |
223 |
Imprisonment for 2 years along with fine |
bailable |
Intentionally insult or interruption to public servant sitting in judicial proceeding |
228 |
Imprisonment for 6 months along with fine of Rs. 1000 |
bailable |
Fraudulent use of false instrument for weighing |
264 |
Imprisonment for 1 year with fine |
bailable |
Negligent act likely to spread infectious decease dangerous to life |
269 |
Imprisonment for 6 months with fine |
bailable |
Adulteration of food or drink intended for sale |
272 |
Imprisonment for 6 months with fine of Rs. 1000 |
bailable |
Bailable offence |
IPC |
Punishment |
Bail |
Sale of adulterated drug |
275 |
Imprisonment for 6 months with fine of Rs. 1000 |
bailable |
Rash driving or riding on a public way |
279 |
Imprisonment for 6 months with fine of Rs. 1000 |
bailable |
Danger of obstruction in public way or line of navigation |
283 |
Fine of Rs. 200 |
bailable |
Sale of obscene book |
292 |
Imprisonment for 2 years and fine of Rs. 2000 |
bailable |
Trespassing on burial places |
297 |
Imprisonment for 1 year with fine |
bailable |
Punishment for causing death by negligence |
304A |
Imprisonment for 2 years |
bailable |
Attempt to commit suicide |
309 |
Imprisonment for 1 year or with fine |
bailable |
Concealment of birth by secret disposal of body |
318 |
Imprisonment for 2 years with fine |
bailable |
Causing hurt |
323 |
Imprisonment for 1 year with fine |
bailable |
Using force |
349 |
Imprisonment for 3 months or with fine of Rs. 500 |
bailable |
Bailable offence |
IPC |
Punishment |
Bail |
Stalking |
354D |
Imprisonment for 3 months or with fine |
bailable |
Punishment for kidnapping |
363 |
Imprisonment for 7 months or with fine |
bailable |
Punishment for cheating |
417 |
Imprisonment for 1 year and fine |
bailable |
Punishment for mischief |
426 |
Imprisonment for 3 months |
bailable |
Punishment for criminal trespass |
447 |
Imprisonment for 3 months and fine of Rs. 500 |
bailable |
Forgery |
465 |
Imprisonment for 2 years and fine |
bailable |
Falsification of accounts |
477A |
Imprisonment for 2 years and fine |
bailable |
Possession of forged currency notes or bank notes |
489C |
Imprisonment for 7 years and fine |
bailable |
Marrying again during life time of husband or wife |
494 |
Imprisonment for 7 years and fine |
bailable |
Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage |
496 |
Imprisonment for 6 years and fine |
bailable |
Bailable offence |
IPC |
Punishment |
Bail |
Enticing or taking away or detaining with criminal intent |
498 |
Imprisonment for 2 years and fine |
bailable |
Punishment for defamation |
500 |
Imprisonment for 2 years and fine |
bailable |
Criminal intimidation |
506 |
Imprisonment for 2 years for simple offence and 7 years if threat is to cause death or grievous hurt |
bailable |
Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a women |
509 |
Imprisonment for 3 years and fine |
bailable |
Misconduct in public by drunken person |
510 |
Imprisonment for 24 hours and fine of Rs. 10 |
bailable |
Offences |
IPC |
Punishment |
Bail |
Abatement |
107 |
Depends on offence |
Depends on offence |
Criminal Conspiracy to commit an offence punishable with death |
120B |
Depends on offence |
Depends on Offence. e.g. Murder non-bailable |
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