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Section 84: Enticing or Taking Away or Detaining with Criminal Intent a Married Woman

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

CHAPTER V: OF OFFENCES AGAINST WOMAN AND CHILD

Of offences relating to marriage

Section 84: Enticing or taking away or detaining with criminal intent a married woman.

Bare Act

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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