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Section 250: Aggravated Theft - Stealing from Person, Dwelling, Vehicle, Railway, Public Office

250.Stealing from person; stealing goods in transit, etc.

If a theft is committed in any of the following circumstances—

(a)if the thing is stolen from the person of another;

(b)if the thing is stolen in a dwelling house, and its value exceeds one hundred shillings, or the offender at or immediately before or after the time of stealing uses or threatens to use violence to any person in the dwelling house;

(c)if the thing is stolen from any kind of vessel or vehicle or place of deposit;

(d)if the thing stolen is attached to or forms part of a railway;

(e)if the thing is stolen from a public office in which it is deposited or kept; or

(f)if the offender, in order to commit the offence, opens any locked room, box or other receptacle by means of a key or other instrument,

the offender is liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a term of seven years.

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If you steal directly from another person's body, from a home with violence or high-value items, from any vehicle or vessel, from a railway, from a pu...

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