Section 70 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 deals with the offence of:

Section 70 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (formerly Section 376D of the Indian Penal Code, 1860) is titled 'Gang rape' and provides in Section 70(1) that where a woman is raped by one or more persons constituting a group or acting in furtherance of a common intention, each of those persons shall be deemed to have committed the offence of rape and shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than twenty years, but which may extend to imprisonment for life (meaning imprisonment for the remainder of that person's natural life), and with fine. Custodial rape by a police officer falls under Section 64(2)(a) of the BNS, 2023 (formerly Section 376(2)(a) of the IPC), non-consensual sexual intercourse by a husband upon his wife during separation falls under Section 67 of the BNS, 2023 (formerly Section 376B of the IPC), and adultery was omitted after Section 497 of the IPC was struck down in Joseph Shine v. Union of India, (2019) 3 SCC 39.