Section 49: Prohibition of undermining sovereignty, integrity or national unity

1) No person shall, with the intention of undermining the independence, sovereignty, geographical or territorial integrity or national unity of Nepal, collect persons, arms and ammunition, build any armed military or paramilitary organisation, or attempt to commit such an act.

2)  No person shall make, or cause to be made, any kind of conspiracy, in association with any foreign state, government or organized force, to undermine the independence, sovereignty, geographical or territorial integrity or national unity of Nepal.

3)  No person shall abet the commission of the offence under sub-section (1) or (2).

4) No person shall commit, or cause to be committed, any act that gives rise to hatred, enmity or contempt on grounds of class, race, religion, region, community or similar other ground, which is likely to jeopardize the sovereignty, geographical or territorial integrity, nationality, national unity, independence, dignity, or harmonious relations between federal units, of Nepal or attempt to commit, or abet the commission of, or make conspiracy to commit, such act, or undermine or cause to be undermined the cordial relations subsisting between different castes, races or communities.

5) A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in this Section shall be sentenced to the following punishment:

(a) Imprisonment for life in the case of the offence referred to in sub-section (1) or (2),

(b) Imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years and a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand rupees in the case of the offence referred to in sub-section (3),

(c) Imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years and a fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees in the case of the offence referred to in sub-section (4).