Under Section 68 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Sexual intercourse by a person in authority),…

Section 68 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (replacing Section 376C IPC) provides that whoever, being in a position of authority or in a fiduciary relationship, a public servant, superintendent or manager of a jail/remand home/custody institution, or on the management or staff of a hospital, abuses such position or fiduciary relationship to induce or seduce any woman in his custody or under his charge or present in the premises to have sexual intercourse not amounting to rape shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment of either description for a term not less than five years, which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.