IPC Section 340 is now BNS Section 127(1)

IPC 340 (Wrongful confinement) → BNS 127(1) Wrongful confinement

Verbatim · BNS 127(1)(1) Whoever wrongfully restrains any person in such a manner as to prevent that person from proceedings beyond certain circumscribing limits, is said “wrongfully to confine” that person.

Read the full BNS Section 127 →

Offences committed before 1 July 2024 are still charged and tried under the IPC; the BNS applies to offences on or after that date.

Old-to-new correspondence is indicative and not always one-to-one; read the new text itself.