Trespass on burial places: criminalises intentional or knowing intrusion, indignity to corpses, or funeral disturbances with imprisonment or fine. Section 301 criminalises trespass in places of worship, sepulchres, sites for funeral rites or depositories for remains, offering indignity to human corpses, and causing disturbance to persons assembled for funeral ceremonies, when done with intent to wound feelings or insult religion, or with knowledge that such effects are likely; the offence is punishable with imprisonment of either description, or fine, or both.
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Trespass on burial places: criminalises intentional or knowing intrusion, indignity to corpses, or funeral disturbances with imprisonment or fine.
Section 301 criminalises trespass in places of worship, sepulchres, sites for funeral rites or depositories for remains, offering indignity to human corpses, and causing disturbance to persons assembled for funeral ceremonies, when done with intent to wound feelings or insult religion, or with knowledge that such effects are likely; the offence is punishable with imprisonment of either description, or fine, or both.
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