Section 403: Punishment for attempted robbery, etc.

(1) Any person who with intent to steal anything, assaults any other person and at or
immediately after the time of assault, uses or threatens to use actual violence to any
other person or any property in order to obtain the thing intended to be stolen shall
upon conviction be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than fourteen years but not
more than twenty years.
[1970 No. 47.]
(2) If‐
(a) any offender mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, is armed with any firearms
or any offensive weapon or is in company with any other person so armed; or
(b) at or immediately before or immediately after the time of the assault the offender
wounds or uses any other personal violence to any person,
the offender shall upon conviction be sentenced to imprisonment for life with or
without whipping.
(3) Any person found in any public place in possession of any firearms, whether real or
imitation, and in circumstances reasonably indicating that the possession of the
firearms is with intent to the immediate or eventual commission by that person or any
other person of any offence under section 402 of this Code shall upon conviction be
sentenced to imprisonment for not less than fourteen years or more than twenty
years.