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(5) For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that where any person charged with
stealing anything or with any other offence under any other section of this Code is acquitted, he
may be subsequently charged and tried for an offence under this section only if the subsequent
charge under this section is based on acts or omissions related to those upon which the
previous charge was based.
(6) Where the court convicts a person of an offence under this section, the court shall order
that person to pay the specified authority compensation of an amount not exceeding the
amount of the actual loss incurred by the specified authority and in assessing the compensation
the court shall have regard to any extenuating circumstance it may consider relevant.
(7) Where an order is made under subsection (6) the specified authority in whose favour the
order is made may file an authenticated copy of the order in the district court having jurisdiction
over the area over which the court which made the order has jurisdiction, and upon being so
filed the order shall be deemed to be a decree passed by that district court and may be
executed in the same manner as if it were a decree passed under the provisions of the Civil
Procedure Code *(18), and the district court shall have jurisdiction to execute the decree
notwithstanding that the amount of the compensation awarded exceeds its pecuniary
jurisdiction.
285. Definition of robbery
CHAPTER XXIX
ROBBERY AND EXTORTION (ss 285-292)
Any person who steals anything and, at or immediately before or immediately after the time
of stealing it, uses or threatens to use actual violence to any person or property in order to
obtain or retain the thing stolen or to prevent or overcome resistance to its being stolen or
retained is guilty of robbery.
286. Punishment for robbery
Any person who commits robbery is liable to imprisonment for twenty years and if the
offender is armed with any dangerous or offensive weapon or instrument, or is in company with
any other person or if, at or immediately before or immediately after the time of robbery, he
wounds, beats, strikes or uses personal violence to any person, he is liable to imprisonment for
life, with or without corporal punishment.
287. Attempted robbery
(1) Any person who assaults another with intent to steal anything, and, at or immediately
before or immediately after the time of assault, uses or threatens to use actual violence to any
person or property in order to obtain the thing intended to be stolen, or to prevent or overcome
resistance to its being stolen, is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term of
not less than seven years and not exceeding twenty years, with corporal punishment.