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CHAPTER XVI OF OFFENCES AFFECTING THE HUMAN BODY · Of Kidnapping, abduction, slavery and forced labour

Section 364A: Kidnapping for ransom, etc

The Indian Penal Code, 1860 (repealed)

Repealed by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.

1[Whoever kidnaps or abducts any person or keeps a person in detention after such kidnapping or abduction, and threatens to cause death or hurt to such person, or by his conduct gives rise to a reasonable apprehension that such person may be put to death or hurt, or causes hurt or death to such person in order to compel the Government or 2[any foreign State or international inter-governmental organisation or any other person] to do or abstain from doing any act or to pay a ransom, shall be punishable with death, or imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to fine.]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Ins. by Act 42 of 1993, s. 2.
  2. 2.Subs. by Act 24 of 1995, s. 2, for “any other person”.

Now in the BNS

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

364A. Kidnapping for ransom, etc.BNS 140(2)

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