BNS · Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Section 89 — Causing miscarriage without woman's consent.
Replaces IPC Section 313.
Whoever commits the offence under section 88 without the consent of the woman, whether the woman is quick with child or not, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Nearby sections
- 86 Cruelty defined.
- 87 Kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage, etc.
- 88 Causing miscarriage.
- 90 Death caused by act done with intent to cause miscarriage.
- 91 Act done with intent to prevent child being born alive or to cause to die after birth.
- 92 Causing death of quick unborn child by act amounting to culpable homicide.
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