BNS Section 84 — Enticing or taking away or detaining with criminal intent a married woman
Section 84 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Enticing or taking away or detaining with criminal intent a married woman”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
84. Enticing or taking away or detaining with criminal intent a married woman.—Whoever takes or entices away any woman who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife of any other man, with intent that she may have illicit intercourse with any person, or conceals or detains with that intent any such woman, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both. ¶
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