Section 243: Prohibition of burglary (Nakabajani)

1) No person shall commit, or cause to be committed, burglary.

2) For the purposes of sub-section (1), a person shall be considered to commit burglary if he or she commits theft in a house by entering into the house by breaking its main gate or by using any passage, place, method or means other than the main gate, or after committing theft, he or she quits, or attempts to quit, by breaking its main gate or by using any passage, place, method or means other than the main gate.

3) A person who commits the offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term of three to five years and a fine of thirty thousand to fifty thousand rupees.