BNS Section 69 — Sexual intercourse by employing deceitful means, etc
Section 69 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Sexual intercourse by employing deceitful means, etc”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
69. Sexual intercourse by employing deceitful means, etc.—Whoever, by deceitful means or by making promise to marry to a woman without any intention of fulfilling the same, has sexual intercourse with her, such sexual intercourse not amounting to the offence of rape, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years and shall also be liable to fine. ¶
Explanation.— “deceitful means” shall include inducement for, or false promise of employment or promotion, or marrying by suppressing identity. ¶
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