BNS · Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Section 95 — Hiring, employing or engaging a child to commit an offence.
Replaces IPC Section -.
Whoever hires, employs or engages any child to commit an offence shall be punished with imprisonment of either description which shall not be less than three years but which may extend to ten years, and with fine; and if the offence be committed shall also be punished with the punishment provided for that offence as if the offence has been committed by such person himself. Explanation.—Hiring, employing, engaging or using a child for sexual exploitation or pornography is covered within the meaning of this section.
Nearby sections
- 92 Causing death of quick unborn child by act amounting to culpable homicide.
- 93 Exposure and abandonment of child under twelve years of age, by parent or person having care of it.
- 94 Concealment of birth by secret disposal of dead body.
- 96 Procuration of child.
- 97 Kidnapping or abducting child under ten years of age with intent to steal from its person.
- 98 Selling child for purposes of prostitution, etc.
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