The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
CHAPTER V: OF OFFENCES AGAINST WOMAN AND CHILD
Of offences relating to marriage
Section 83: Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage.
Bare Act
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.
