BNS Section 169 — Candidate, electoral right defined
Section 169 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Candidate, electoral right defined”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
169. Candidate, electoral right defined.—For the purposes of this Chapter— ¶
(a) “candidate” means a person who has been nominated as a candidate at any election; ¶
(b) “electoral right” means the right of a person to stand, or not to stand as, or to withdraw from being, a candidate or to vote or refrain from voting at an election. ¶
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