Which provision of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, defines and punishes trafficking of persons?
Section 143 defines trafficking for exploitation and sets punishments for it. The adjacent concepts of procuration, wrongful concealment and kidnapping for ransom are…
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Which provision of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, defines and punishes trafficking of persons?
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Correct answer D
Section 143 defines trafficking for exploitation and sets punishments for it.
The adjacent concepts of procuration, wrongful concealment and kidnapping for ransom are addressed by separate provisions.
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Option A
Section 96 concerns procuration of a child for illicit intercourse.
Option B
Section 142 concerns knowingly and wrongfully concealing or confining a kidnapped or abducted person.
Option C
Section 140(2) concerns kidnapping, abduction or subsequent detention for ransom or the other coercive purposes it specifies.
Option D
Section 143 defines trafficking for exploitation and prescribes punishments.
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