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Which provision of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 specifically punishes a husband who has sexual…

Section 67 specifically covers a husband's non-consensual sexual intercourse with his wife while she is living separately, with or without a decree of separation. Sections…

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Which provision of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 specifically punishes a husband who has sexual intercourse with his wife without her consent while she is living separately from him?

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Section 67 specifically covers a husband's non-consensual sexual intercourse with his wife while she is living separately, with or without a decree of separation.

Sections 66, 68 and 70 address rape-related fatal or vegetative injury, abuse of authority and gang rape, respectively.

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Section 66 concerns injury that causes death or a persistent vegetative state in the course of specified rape offences.

Option B

Section 68 concerns abuse of authority or a fiduciary position in the situations it specifies.

Option C

Section 70 addresses gang rape.

Option D

Section 67 specifically covers intercourse without the wife's consent while she is living separately, whether under a decree of separation or otherwise.

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