THE INDIAN PENAL CODE
ACT NO. 45 OF 1860
CHAPTER XIX
OFTHE CRIMINAL BREACHOF CONTRACTSOF SERVICE
- 490.[Breach of contract of service during voyage or journey.] Rep. by the Workmen’s Breach of
Contract (Repealing) Act, 1925 (3 of 1925), s. 2 and Sch. - 491.Breach of contract to attend on and supply wants of helpless person.—Whoever, being
bound by a lawful contract to attend on or to supply the wants of any person who, by reason of youth, or
of unsoundness of mind, or of a disease or bodily weakness, is helpless or incapable of providing for his
own safety or of supplying his own wants, voluntarily omits so to do, shall be punished with
imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may
extend to two hundred rupees, or with both. - 492.[Breach of contract to serve at distant place to which servant is conveyed at master’s expense.]
Rep. by the Workmen’s Breach of Contract (Repealing) Act,1925 (3 of 1925), s. 2 and Sch.