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Section 496 - Indian Penal Code, 1860
Indian Penal Code, 1860
496. Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage
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.
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- Section 260: Using as genuine a Government stamp known to be a counterfeit
- Section 318: Concealment of birth by secret disposal of dead body
- Section 283: Danger or obstruction in public way or line of navigation
- Section 241: Delivery of coin as genuine, which, when first possessed, the deliverer did not know to be counterfeit
- Section 297: Trespassing on burial places, etc
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