According to Explanation III to section 16 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act,…

Explanation III to section 16 treats as aiding the employing, harbouring, receiving or transporting of a child "by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or the giving or receiving of payments or benefits" to obtain the consent of a person having control over the child, for an offence under the Act. Force is only one of the listed means, and consent obtained in these ways does not take the case outside the Explanation.