Chapter XIX: Of the Criminal Breach of Contract of Service (Section 490- 492)

Section 490: Breach of contract of service during voyage or journey

Repealed by the Act 3 of 1925


Section 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.


Section 492: Breach of contract to serve at distant place to which servant is conveyed at master’s expense

Repealed by the Act 3 of 1925