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Section 74 - The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Of criminal force and assault against woman
74. Assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty.
Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any woman, intending to outrage or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby outrage her modesty, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which shall not be less than one year but which may extend to five years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Related Sections
- Section 60: Concealing design to commit offence punishable with imprisonment
- Section 329: Criminal trespass and house-trespass
- Section 48: Abetment outside India for offence in India
- Section 213: Refusing oath or affirmation when duly required by public servant to make it
- Section 7: Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple
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