BNS · Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Section 84 — Enticing or taking away or detaining with criminal intent a married woman.
Replaces IPC Section 498.
Whoever takes or entices away any woman who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife of any other man, with intent that she may have illicit intercourse with any person, or conceals or detains with that intent any such woman, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
Nearby sections
- 81 Cohabitation caused by man deceitfully inducing belief of lawful marriage.
- 82 Marrying again during lifetime of husband or wife.
- 83 Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage.
- 85 Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty.
- 86 Cruelty defined.
- 87 Kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage, etc.
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