CHAPTER V OF OFFENCES AGAINST WOMAN AND CHILD · Of sexual offences
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Whoever, by deceitful means or by making promise to marry to a woman without any intention of fulfilling the same, has sexual intercourse with her, such sexual intercourse not amounting to the offence of rape, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years and shall also be liable to fine.
Explanation.— “deceitful means” shall include inducement for, or false promise of employment or promotion, or marrying by suppressing identity.
As given in the correspondence table of the National Crime Records Bureau (Ministry of Home Affairs). Read both texts before relying on it. NCRB table
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8 questions in 36 of our papers cite Section 69. Try these from the free papers:
1. Under the proviso to Section 149 of the BSA, in a prosecution for an offence under any of Sections 64 to 71 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, or an attempt to commit such an offence, where the question of consent is in issue, it is not permissible to put questions in the cross-examination of the victim as to:
2. Consider the following statements: 1. Section 48 of the BSA, which makes evidence of the character or previous sexual experience of the victim irrelevant on the issue of consent, applies to prosecutions under Sections 64 to 71 and also Sections 74 to 78 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. 2. The proviso to Section 149 of the BSA, which bars questions in the cross-examination of the victim as to general immoral character or previous sexual experience, applies to prosecutions under Sections 64 to 71 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. 3. Each of these provisions also applies to a prosecution for an attempt to commit any of the offences it lists. Which of the statements given above are correct?
3. Under the Explanation to Section 69 of the BNS, 'deceitful means' includes