In which of the following Sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 is the provision relating to…
Section 68 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 punishes a person in a position of authority or fiduciary relationship, a public servant, a superintendent or manager of a…
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In which of the following Sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 is the provision relating to intercourse by a public servant with a woman in his custody given?
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Section 68 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 punishes a person in a position of authority or fiduciary relationship, a public servant, a superintendent or manager of a jail, remand home or other place of custody, or a person on the management or staff of a hospital, who abuses that position to induce or seduce a woman in his custody, under his charge or present in the premises to have sexual intercourse not amounting to rape (formerly section 376C IPC as substituted in 2013; before 2013 the public-servant case was section 376B). Section 67 concerns sexual intercourse by a husband with his wife during separation, section 69 sexual intercourse by deceitful means or a false promise to marry, and section 64 punishment for rape.
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