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Under section 295 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, sale of an obscene object to a person under…

Section 295 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 specially punishes selling, distributing or exhibiting obscene objects to a child, and section 2(3) defines a child as a…

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Under section 295 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, sale of an obscene object to a person under which age, in years, attracts the special punishment?
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Section 295 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 specially punishes selling, distributing or exhibiting obscene objects to a child, and section 2(3) defines a child as a person below the age of "18" years. The former section 293 IPC used the higher threshold of twenty years; fourteen and sixteen are not the statutory age.

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