Article 360: Damaging public-benefit property

Décisions de la Cour suprême interprétant cette section

1. Arrêt de la Cour suprême n° 1552/2568 (2025)

   Property that exists only for the benefit of buyers in a particular land development, and not for the general public, is not property used or held for public benefit, so damaging it is not an offence under Section 360.

   The court held that a concrete boundary wall serving only the buyers of a land development was not public-benefit property, so damaging it did not constitute the offence under Section 360, and the case was correctly considered as ordinary mischief under Section 358.

2. Arrêt de la Cour suprême n° 3819/2563 (2020)

   Where the accused's conduct disturbs the plaintiffs' right to use public common land and causes them special damage beyond that of the general public, the plaintiffs are injured parties with standing to prosecute the public-benefit mischief offence under Section 360.

   The plaintiffs were held to be specially damaged in their use of public common land as a result of the defendants' conduct, giving them standing to prosecute under Section 360. The trial court convicted both defendants under Section 360, imposing a fine on one and imprisonment on the other.

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