BNS84
BNS Section 84: Enticing or taking away or detaining with criminal intent a married woman
Ch V · Of Offences Against Woman and Child
Gazette p.42
Punishment punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both
Copied verbatim from the section text below.
Arrest, bail & court
- Non-cognizable · Bailable · Any Magistrate
From the BNSS, 2023, First Schedule (machine-extracted; check the Schedule for anything consequential).
Verbatim · BNS84. Enticing or taking away or detaining with criminal intent a married woman.— Whoever takes or entices away any woman who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife of any other man, with intent that she may have illicit intercourse with any person, or conceals or detains with that intent any such woman, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
Corresponds (indicatively) to IPC 498 of the repealed Indian Penal Code, 1860. IPC → BNS table
Cite as: Section 84, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 45 of 2023)