BNS Section 83 — Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage
Section 83 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
83. Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage.—Whoever, dishonestly or with a fraudulent intention, goes through the ceremony of being married, knowing that he is not thereby lawfully married, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine. ¶
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