CHAPTER V OF OFFENCES AGAINST WOMAN AND CHILD · Of offences against child

Section 95: Hiring, employing or engaging a child to commit an offence

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Whoever hires, employs or engages any child to commit an offence shall be punished with imprisonment of either description which shall not be less than three years but which may extend to ten years, and with fine; and if the offence be committed shall also be punished with the punishment provided for that offence as if the offence has been committed by such person himself.

Explanation.—Hiring, employing, engaging or using a child for sexual exploitation or pornography is covered within the meaning of this section.

Corresponding IPC provision

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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Questions on this section

1 question in 8 of our papers cite Section 95. Try these from the free papers:

1. A engages B, a boy aged fifteen, to steal a mobile phone from a shop, promising to pay him. B commits the theft. Which statement correctly states A's liability under Section 95 of the BNS?

Practise questions on Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita