Report Scams
For a Better India
Updating protected services for a safer Bharat. Jai Hind.
Offences Against Women and Children
Taking or enticing away a woman known to be another man's wife, intending her to have illicit intercourse with anyone, or concealing/detaining her with that intent, is punished with up to 2 years' imprisonment, fine, or both.
This criminalises deliberately luring away or concealing a married woman specifically to facilitate illicit sexual relations with someone else - an older-style provision addressing interference in a marriage through enticement or concealment.
Someone who deliberately entices a married woman away from her family, specifically intending to facilitate her having illicit relations with themselves or another person, commits this offence.