The INDIAN PENAL CODE

OF OFFENCES AGAINST PROPERTY

Section 443: Lurking house-trespass.

Whoever commits house-trespass having taken precautions to conceal such house-trespass from some person who has a right to exclude or eject the trespasser from the building, tent or vessel which is the subject of the trespass, is said to commit “lurking house-trespass”.