Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
83. Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage.
Whoever, dishonestly or with a fraudulent intention, goes through the ceremony of being married, knowing that he is not thereby lawfully married, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.
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83. Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage.
Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage
Indian Penal Code, 1860
496. Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage
Whoever, dishonestly or with a fraudulent intention, goes through the ceremony of being married, knowing that he is not thereby lawfully married, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.
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