Wounding religious feelings as an offence: deliberate words, gestures or objects attract criminal penalty and possible imprisonment. The statute criminalises conduct committed with the deliberate intention to wound another's religious feelings by uttering words, making sounds, performing gestures, or placing objects in that person's sight or hearing, and prescribes punishment by imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or fine, or both.
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Wounding religious feelings as an offence: deliberate words, gestures or objects attract criminal penalty and possible imprisonment.
The statute criminalises conduct committed with the deliberate intention to wound another's religious feelings by uttering words, making sounds, performing gestures, or placing objects in that person's sight or hearing, and prescribes punishment by imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or fine, or both.
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