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Section 169 - The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Chapter IX
Of Offences Relating to Elections
169. Candidate, electoral right defined.
For the purposes of this Chapter-
(a) "candidate" means a person who has been nominated as a candidate at any election;
(b) "electoral right" means the right of a person to stand, or not to stand as, or to withdraw from being, a candidate or to vote or refrain from voting at an election.
Related Sections
- Section 85: Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty
- Section 55: Abetment of offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life
- Section 318: Cheating
- Section 237: Using as true such declaration knowing it to be false
- Section 160: Abetment of mutiny, if mutiny is committed in consequence thereof
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