BNS Section 168 — Wearing garb or carrying token used by soldier, sailor or airman
Section 168 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Wearing garb or carrying token used by soldier, sailor or airman”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
168. Wearing garb or carrying token used by soldier, sailor or airman.—Whoever, not being a soldier, sailor or airman in the Army, Naval or Air service of the Government of India, wears any garb or carries any token resembling any garb or token used by such a soldier, sailor or airman with the intention that it may be believed that he is such a soldier, sailor or airman, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees, or with both. ¶
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