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National Penal Code 2017
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Chapter-9: Offences Relating to Religion
Section 166: Prohibition of untouchability or discriminatory treatment on
ground of caste: (1) No person shall subject any one to untouchability or any other kind of discrimination, or prevent any one from appearing in any public place or entering into any religious place of public nature, or deprive any one of using water or water pond in public use or of the use of things of any other private or public utility or convenience, on the grounds of custom, tradition, religion, culture, rites or rituals, caste, race, community, profession, occupation, physical condition or origin of social community.
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Section 166: Prohibition of untouchability or discriminatory treatment on
Subsection (2)
A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or a fine not exceeding thirty thousand rupees or both the sentences, and if a public servant commits the offence referred to in this Section, he or she shall be liable to an additional sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.
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Section 167: Prohibition of torture:
(1) No authority who is competent under the law in force to investigate or prosecute any offence, implement law, take any one into control, or hold any one in custody or detention in accordance with law shall subject, or cause to be subjected, any one to physical or mental torture or to cruel, brutal, inhuman or degrading treatment. Explanation: For the purposes of this Section, intentional inflicting of physical or mental pain or suffering on any person who is arrested, taken into control, held in custody, detention or imprisonment or under preventive detention or security or any other person interested in such person or subjecting such person to cruel, brutal, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment for the following purpose shall be considered to constitute torture or cruel, brutal, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment against or to such person: (a) To get information on any matter, (b) To extort confession of any offence, (c) To punish for any act, (d) To show fear, intimidation or coercion, or (e) To do any other act contrary to law.
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Chapter-9: Offences Relating to Religion
Section 167: Prohibition of torture:
Subsection (2)
(1) No authority who is competent under the A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or a fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees or both the sentences, according to the gravity of the offence.
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Chapter-9: Offences Relating to Religion
Section 167: Prohibition of torture:
Subsection (3)
(1) No authority who is competent under the A person who orders the commission of the offence referred to in sub-section (1) or an accomplice who aids in the commission of the offence referred to in this Section shall be liable to the same sentence as is imposable on the principal offender.
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Chapter-9: Offences Relating to Religion
Section 167: Prohibition of torture:
Subsection (4)
(1) No authority who is competent under the No person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (1) shall be allowed to plea that he or she has committed the offence in pursuance of an order by the authority superior to him or her; and, on such ground, he or she shall not be exempted from the sentence imposable on him or her for the commission of such offence.
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Chapter-9: Offences Relating to Religion
Section 168: Prohibition of degrading or inhuman treatment:
(1) No person shall subject, or cause to be subjected, any one to degrading or inhuman treatment. Explanation: For the purposes of this Section, the following act shall be deemed to constitute a degrading or inhumane treatment: (a) To accuse one of being a witch, (b) To expel one from his or her place of residence in accusation of being a witch, (c) To ex-communicate one from the society, or (d) To make cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment by doing any other act whatsoever.
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Chapter-9: Offences Relating to Religion
Section 168: Prohibition of degrading or inhuman treatment:
Subsection (2)
(1) No person A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years and a fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees.
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Section 168: Prohibition of degrading or inhuman treatment:
Subsection (3)
(1) No person Banishing a woman to a shed (Chhaupadi) during menstruation or delivery, or subjecting, causing to be subjected, her to similar other discrimination, untouchability or inhuman treatment of any kind is prohibited.
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Chapter-9: Offences Relating to Religion
Section 168: Prohibition of degrading or inhuman treatment:
Subsection (4)
(1) No person A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (3) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding three thousand rupees or both the sentences.
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Chapter-9: Offences Relating to Religion
Section 168: Prohibition of degrading or inhuman treatment:
Subsection (5)
(1) No person Where a public servant commits the offence referred to in this Section, he or she shall be liable to an additional sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.
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Chapter-9: Offences Relating to Religion
Section 169: Order for compensation to be paid: A reasonable compensation
for the injury or pain caused to the victim shall be ordered to be paid by the person who has committed the offence referred to in this Chapter.
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Chapter-9: Offences Relating to Religion
Section 170: Statute of limitation:
(1) There shall be no statute of limitation for making a complaint in relation to any of the offences referred to in Sections 163 and 164.
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Chapter-9: Offences Relating to Religion
Section 170: Statute of limitation:
Subsection (2)
(1) There shall be no statute of limitation for No complaint shall lie after the expiry of six months from the date of commission of the offence referred to in Section 167 or from the date of release of the concerned person from arrest, control, custody, detention, imprisonment or preventive detention and from the date of knowledge of commission of any of the other offences referred to in this Chapter.
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Chapter-11: Offences Relating to Marriage
Section 171: Prohibition of concluding marriage without consent:
(1) No marriage shall be concluded, or caused to be concluded, without the consent of the persons getting married.
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Chapter-11: Offences Relating to Marriage
Section 171: Prohibition of concluding marriage without consent:
Subsection (2)
(1) No A marriage concluded without the consent referred to in sub-section (1) shall be void.
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Chapter-11: Offences Relating to Marriage
Section 171: Prohibition of concluding marriage without consent:
Subsection (3)
(1) No A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years and a fine not exceeding twenty thousand rupees. Explanation: For the purposes of this Section, a consent given by a person who has not attained the marriageable age under Section 173 shall not be deemed to be consent.
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Chapter-11: Offences Relating to Marriage
Section 172: Prohibition of concluding marriage in prohibited degree of
relationship: (1) Except as otherwise customarily practiced, no person shall conclude, or cause to be concluded, marriage with one who is within the prohibited degree of relationship by consanguinity or affinity.
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Chapter-11: Offences Relating to Marriage
Section 172: Prohibition of concluding marriage in prohibited degree of
Subsection (2)
Where a marriage referred to in sub-section (1) has been concluded in ignorance, such marriage shall be void.
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Section 172: Prohibition of concluding marriage in prohibited degree of
Subsection (3)
Where a marriage referred to in sub-section (1) has been concluded knowingly, the person concluding such marriage shall be liable to the sentence imposable for the offence of incest and a person causing the conclusion of such marriage shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding three thousand rupees or both the sentences, and such marriage shall, ipso facto, be void.
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Section 173: Prohibition of concluding child marriage:
(1) No marriage shall be concluded or cause to be concluded unless parties to the marriage have attained twenty years of age.
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Section 173: Prohibition of concluding child marriage:
Subsection (2)
(1) No marriage shall be A marriage concluded in contravention of sub-section
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Section 173: Prohibition of concluding child marriage:
Subsection (3)
(1) No marriage shall be A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a fine not exceeding thirty thousand rupees.
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Section 174: Prohibition of transacting property in marriage:
(1) No marriage shall be concluded, or caused to be concluded, upon having asked for, or on the condition of receiving or giving of, any type of movable or immovable property, dowry or any property from the bridegroom or the bride side, except such ordinary gift, donation, money or one set of jewelry worn on the body as has been practiced in his or her custom.
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Chapter-11: Offences Relating to Marriage
Section 174: Prohibition of transacting property in marriage:
Subsection (2)
(1) No marriage A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or a fine not exceeding thirty thousand rupees or both the sentences.
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Chapter-11: Offences Relating to Marriage
Section 174: Prohibition of transacting property in marriage:
Subsection (3)
(1) No marriage No person shall, after the conclusion of marriage, ask the bride or her relative for any movable, immovable property or dowry referred to in sub-section (1), or make, in any way, any annoyance, harassment or inhuman or degrading treatment to the bride or her relative for the reason that such movable, immovable property or dowry has not been given.
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Section 174: Prohibition of transacting property in marriage:
Subsection (4)
(1) No marriage A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (3) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or a fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees or both the sentences.
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Chapter-11: Offences Relating to Marriage
Section 174: Prohibition of transacting property in marriage:
Subsection (5)
(1) No marriage Where any property has been taken as mentioned in sub-section (1) or (3), such property shall be returned to the concerned person.
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Chapter-11: Offences Relating to Marriage
Section 175: Prohibition of bigamy:
(1) No married man shall, during the continuation of the marital relationship, conclude another marriage.
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Section 175: Prohibition of bigamy:
Subsection (2)
(1) No married man shall, during the No woman shall conclude marriage with a man knowingly that he is already married.
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Chapter-11: Offences Relating to Marriage
Section 175: Prohibition of bigamy:
Subsection (3)
(1) No married man shall, during the Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1) or (2), a man or woman may marry again if the husband and wife have got separated upon making partition in accordance with law.
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Chapter-11: Offences Relating to Marriage
Section 175: Prohibition of bigamy:
Subsection (4)
(1) No married man shall, during the A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in sub-section (1) or (2) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term of one year to five years and a fine of ten thousand to fifty thousand rupees.
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Chapter-11: Offences Relating to Marriage
Section 175: Prohibition of bigamy:
Subsection (5)
(1) No married man shall, during the The marriage referred to in sub-section (1) shall, ipso facto, be void.
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Chapter-11: Offences Relating to Marriage
Section 175: Prohibition of bigamy:
Subsection (6)
(1) No married man shall, during the Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Section, nothing contained in this Section shall be deemed to have effect on any marriage concluded in accordance with the law in force for the time being prior to the commencement of this Act.
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Chapter-11: Offences Relating to Marriage
Section 176: Statute of limitation: No complaint on any offence under this
Chapter shall lie after the expiry of three months from the date of knowledge of the commission of the offence.
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Chapter-12: Offences Relating to Human Body
Section 177: Prohibition of doing act with the intention of causing death
(homicide): (1) No person shall intentionally kill, or do, or cause to be done, any act causing the death of, another person. Explanation: For the purposes of this Section, even if a person intentionally causes such serious bodily injury or hurt to another person as is likely to cause the death of that other person but that person does not die immediately but die subsequently in consequence of that injury or hurt, the person shall be considered to have killed that other person.
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Section 177: Prohibition of doing act with the intention of causing death
Subsection (2)
A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to the sentence of imprisonment for life.
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Section 178: Prohibition of doing act likely to cause death:
(1) No person shall do any act, with the knowledge that, or having reason to believe that, such act is, in an ordinary course, likely to cause the death of another person.
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Section 178: Prohibition of doing act likely to cause death:
Subsection (2)
(1) No person shall If a person dies in consequence of any act referred to in sub-section (1), the offender shall be liable to the sentence of imprisonment for life.
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Section 179: Prohibition of causing death by grave provocation or in heat of
passion: (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in Section 177 or 178, a person who causes the death of another person in any of the following circumstances shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term of ten to fifteen years and a fine of one hundred thousand to one hundred fifty thousand rupees: (a) Where the offender, while being deprived of the power of self-control by grave and sudden provocation, causes the death of the person who gave such provocation, Provided that this clause shall not apply to the following circumstance:
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Section 179: Prohibition of causing death by grave provocation or in heat of
Subsection (1)
Where the offender is provoked by anything done in obedience to the law or in the exercise of the right of private defense or anything done or intended to be done by a public servant in the exercise of his or her official duties,
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Section 179: Prohibition of causing death by grave provocation or in heat of
Subsection (2)
Where the offender himself or herself gives provocation to another with intent to do harm to any one and anything done by that other person upon being so provoked causes the death of any person. (b) Where the offender in the exercise in good faith of the right of private defence exceeds the limit of such power and causes the death of the person against whom he or she is exercising such right of private defence, (c) Where death is caused instantly in the heat of passion upon a sudden quarrel, Provided that while doing any act referred to in this clause, the offender must not have taken an undue advantage or acted in a cruel or unusual manner.
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Section 179: Prohibition of causing death by grave provocation or in heat of
Subsection (2)
Notwithstanding anything contained in clauses (b) and (c) of sub-section (1), the provisions contained in these clauses shall not be applicable to any case of murder committed with premeditation or deliberate afterthought.
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Section 180: Punishment for homicide by causing death of person other than
person whose death was intended: Notwithstanding anything contained in Sections 177, 178 and 179, where a person, by doing anything which he or she intends to cause or knows to be likely to cause or has reason to believe to be likely to cause death of any one other than the one whose death was so intended, he or she shall be liable to the sentence set forth in Sections 177, 178 and179, as the case may be.
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Section 181: Prohibition of causing death by recklessness:
(1) No person shall cause the death of any one by doing a reckless act.
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Section 181: Prohibition of causing death by recklessness:
Subsection (2)
(1) No person shall A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (1) shall, except in the cases referred to in Sections 177, 178 and 179, be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term of three to ten years and a fine of thirty thousand to one hundred thousand rupees.
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Section 182: Prohibition of causing death by negligence:
(1) Except in the case referred to in Section 179, no person shall cause the death of any one by doing a negligent act.
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Section 182: Prohibition of causing death by negligence:
Subsection (2)
(1) Except in the case A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a fine not exceeding thirty thousand rupees.
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Section 182: Prohibition of causing death by negligence:
Subsection (3)
(1) Except in the case Except in the case referred to in sub-section (1), if any act done by a person under such circumstances that such act is less likely to cause death causes the death of any one accidently, that person shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term of six months to two years or a fine not exceeding twenty thousand rupees or both the sentences.
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Section 183: Prohibition of committing attempt to murder:
(1) No person shall, with the intention of committing murder of anyone, commit an attempt to murder.
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Section 183: Prohibition of committing attempt to murder:
Subsection (2)
(1) No person A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years and a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand rupees.
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Section 184: Prohibition of throwing or abandoning person under one's own
guardianship: (1) A person, being bound to care or maintain an infant, child, disabled patient or elderly person, shall not so throw, abandon or desert as to cause danger to the body or life of such infant, child, patient or elderly person.
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Section 184: Prohibition of throwing or abandoning person under one's own
Subsection (2)
A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a fine not exceeding thirty thousand rupees.
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Section 184: Prohibition of throwing or abandoning person under one's own
Subsection (3)
If the offence referred to in sub-section (1) causes the death of such child, disabled patient or elderly person, the offender shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years and a fine not exceeding seventy thousand rupees. Provided that if the throwing, abandonment or neglect causes the death of an infant, the offender shall be liable to the sentence referred to in Section 177.
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Section 185: Prohibition of abetment of suicide:
(1) No person shall abet the commission of suicide by another, or create, or cause to be created, such circumstances as likely to lead towards the commission of such act.
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Section 185: Prohibition of abetment of suicide:
Subsection (2)
(1) No person shall abet the A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years and a fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees.
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Section 186: Order for compensation to be paid: If any harm, injury or loss is
caused to the body, life or property of any person from the commission of any offence referred to in this Chapter, a reasonable compensation for such harm, injury or loss shall be ordered to be paid by the offender to the victim and to his or her successor if the victim is unavailable.
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Section 187: Statute of limitation:
(1) There shall be no statute of limitation for making a complaint in relation to any of the offences under Sections 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, and proviso to sub-section (3) of Section 184.
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Section 187: Statute of limitation:
Subsection (2)
(1) There shall be no statute of limitation for No complaint shall lie after the expiry of six months from the date of knowledge of the commission of any of the offences under this Chapter other than those set forth in sub-section (1).
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Chapter-13: Offences against Protection of Pregnancy
Section 188: Prohibition of abortion:
(1) No person shall, except in the case referred to in Section 189, commit abortion, or do any act with intent to cause, or with the knowledge that, or having reason to believe that, such act is likely to cause, abortion.
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Section 188: Prohibition of abortion:
Subsection (2)
(1) No person shall cause a pregnant woman to abort, by coercing, threatening, alluring or inducing her to so abort.
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Section 188: Prohibition of abortion:
Subsection (3)
(1) A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (1) or (2) shall be liable to: (a) A sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year and a fine not exceeding ten thousand rupees in the case of pregnancy of up to twelve weeks, (b) A sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a fine not exceeding thirty thousand rupees in the case of pregnancy of more than twelve weeks and up to twenty-five weeks, (c) A sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years and a fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees in the case of pregnancy of more than twenty-five weeks.
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Section 188: Prohibition of abortion:
Subsection (4)
(1) If the pregnancy is not terminated at once by an act of abortion and the child born alive but the child dies immediately after birth as the consequence of such act, such act shall, for the purposes of this Section, be deemed to constitute the offence of abortion.
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Section 188: Prohibition of abortion:
Subsection (5)
(1) If an act done by a person in making attempt to cause the death of a pregnant woman does not cause the death of the woman but causes the termination of her pregnancy of twenty-five weeks or more, the offender shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, in addition to the sentence to be imposed under this Act or other law.
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Section 188: Prohibition of abortion:
Subsection (6)
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Section, if any act done by a person with premeditation against a pregnant woman causes abortion, that person shall be liable to the following sentence despite the fact that he or she has not done such act with the intention of causing abortion: (a) A sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year in the case of pregnancy of up to twelve weeks, (b) A sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years in the case of pregnancy of more than twelve weeks and up to twenty-five weeks, (c) A sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years in the case of pregnancy of more than twentyfive weeks.
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Section 188: Prohibition of abortion:
Subsection (7)
(1) No person shall, with the intention of causing abortion, do, or cause to be done, any act by which the sex of the foetus is identified, and abort or cause abortion following such sex identification.
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Section 188: Prohibition of abortion:
Subsection (8)
(1) A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (7) shall be liable to: (a) A sentence of imprisonment for a term of three months to six months, in the case of the offence of identifying, or causing identification of, the sex of the foetus with the intention of causing abortion, and (b) A sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, in addition to the sentence specified in subsection (3), in the case of the offence of aborting or causing abortion after identifying the sex.
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Section 189: When abortion can be made:
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in Section 188, where a health worker causes abortion in any of the following circumstances, no offence of abortion under this Act shall be deemed to have been committed: (a) The pregnancy of up to twelve weeks is terminated with the consent of the pregnant woman, (b) The pregnancy is terminated with the consent of the pregnant woman, upon the opinion of a licensed doctor that her life may be in danger or her physical or mental health may deteriorate or a handicapped child will born if pregnancy is not terminated, (c) The pregnancy of up to eighteen weeks conceived from rape or incest is terminated with the consent of the pregnant woman, (d) The pregnancy of a woman with human immune- deficiency virus (HIV) or other incurable disease of similar nature is terminated with her consent. Explanation: For the purposes of this Section, the term "health worker" means a doctor or health worker who, upon having the specified qualification, has obtained a license for causing abortion.
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Section 190: Statute of limitation: No complaint shall lie after the expiry of six
months from the date of knowledge of commission of the offence under this Chapter.
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Chapter-14: Offences Relating to Hurt or Grievous Hurt
Section 191: Prohibition of causing hurt:
(1) No person shall cause hurt to another person.
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Section 191: Prohibition of causing hurt:
Subsection (2)
(1) No person shall cause hurt to A person who does any of the following acts to another person shall be deemed to cause hurt: (a) Any act by which any kind of bodily pain is caused, (b) Any act by which a disease is transferred, (c) Any other act by which infirmity is caused. Explanation: For the purposes of this Section, the term "infirmity" means the state of any part of the body being incapable of functioning normally, and this term also includes mental infirmity.
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Section 191: Prohibition of causing hurt:
Subsection (3)
(1) No person shall cause hurt to A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or a fine not exceeding thirty thousand rupees or both the sentences.
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Chapter-14: Offences Relating to Hurt or Grievous Hurt
Section 192: Prohibition of causing grievous hurt:
(1) No person shall cause grievous hurt to any other person.
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Section 192: Prohibition of causing grievous hurt:
Subsection (2)
(1) No person shall cause Where any person does any act with the intention of causing hurt to another person, which results in any of the following consequences, that person is deemed to have committed the offence of causing grievous hurt to that other person: (a) Making blind by making privation of the sight of, or by breaking, either eye, (b) Privation of smelling power of the nose, (c) Privation of hearing power of either ear, (d) Privation of speaking power of the tongue, (e) Cutting of woman's breast, (f) Emasculation of man and woman (making woman infertile or man impotent), (g) Privation of the backbone, …, hand, leg or joint of such organ by breaking, fracturing, dislocating it, (h) Any hurt which causes the sufferer to be unable to perform his or her professional work.
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Chapter-14: Offences Relating to Hurt or Grievous Hurt
Section 192: Prohibition of causing grievous hurt:
Subsection (3)
(1) No person shall cause Where any act of hurt, though not causing grievous hurt immediately, results subsequently in the consequence referred to in sub-section (2), it shall be deemed to have caused grievous hurt.
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Chapter-14: Offences Relating to Hurt or Grievous Hurt
Section 192: Prohibition of causing grievous hurt:
Subsection (4)
(1) No person shall cause A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years and a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand rupees.
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Chapter-14: Offences Relating to Hurt or Grievous Hurt
Section 192: Prohibition of causing grievous hurt:
Subsection (5)
(1) No person shall cause Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (4), in the case of so causing grievous hurt to either of the organs performing the same function that it becomes dysfunctional, the offender shall be liable to half the sentence specified in that subsection, and where the wound caused by grievous hurt gets so healed as to restore the organ, the offender shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a fine not exceeding thirty thousand rupees.
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Section 193: Prohibition of causing disfigurement by use of acid or other
chemical, biological or toxin substance: (1) No person shall cause bodily pain to another person by administering acid or similar kind of other chemical, biological or toxin substance to, or throwing such substance on, that other person, or by burning, maiming, strolling the body with or applying to the body such substance or disfigure the face or any part of the body of that other person.
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Section 193: Prohibition of causing disfigurement by use of acid or other
Subsection (2)
A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (1) shall be liable, according to the nature of the offence, to a sentence of imprisonment for a term of five to eight years and a fine of one hundred thousand to five hundred thousand rupees in the case of disfigurement of the face, and to a sentence of imprisonment for a term of three to five years and a fine of fifty thousand to three hundred thousand rupees in the case of disfigurement of any other organ of the body or bodily pain.
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Section 193: Prohibition of causing disfigurement by use of acid or other
Subsection (3)
The amount of fine collected in accordance with subsection (2) shall be paid in whole to the victim as compensation.
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Section 194: Sentence for causing hurt or grievous hurt by grave provocation
or in heat of passion: (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in Section 191 or 192, a person who causes hurt in any of the following circumstances shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine not exceeding twenty thousand rupees or both the sentences in the case of a grievous hurt, and to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding ten thousand rupees or both the sentences in the case of any other kind of hurt: (a) Where the offender, while being deprived of the power of self-control by grave and sudden provocation, causes hurt to the person who gave such provocation or to any other person by a mistake of fact or happens to cause injury to another person by accident. Provided that this clause shall not apply to the following circumstance:
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Section 194: Sentence for causing hurt or grievous hurt by grave provocation
Subsection (1)
Where the offender causes hurt upon being provoked by anything done in obedience to the law or in the exercise of the right of private defence or any anything done or intended to be done by a public servant in the exercise of his or her official duties,
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Section 194: Sentence for causing hurt or grievous hurt by grave provocation
Subsection (2)
Where the offender himself or herself gives provocation to another with intent to cause any harm to any one and anything done by that other person upon being so provoked causes hurt to any person. (b) Where the offender in the exercise in good faith of the right of private defence exceeds the limit of such power and causes injury to any person, (c) Where hurt is caused to any person instantly in the heat of passion upon a sudden quarrel, Provided that while doing any act referred to in this clause, the offender must not have taken an undue advantage or acted in a cruel or unusual manner.
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Section 194: Sentence for causing hurt or grievous hurt by grave provocation
Subsection (2)
Notwithstanding anything contained in clauses (b) and (c) of sub-section (1), the provisions contained in these clauses shall not be applicable to any case of hurt or grievous hurt caused with premeditation or deliberate afterthought.
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Section 195: Prohibition of causing hurt or grievous hurt by recklessness or
negligence: (1) No person shall cause hurt or grievous hurt or other injury to any one by doing a reckless or negligent act.
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Section 195: Prohibition of causing hurt or grievous hurt by recklessness or
Subsection (2)
A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (1) shall be liable to the following sentence: (a) A sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine not exceeding twenty thousand rupees or both the sentences, in the case of a grievous hurt caused by a reckless act, and a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding ten thousand rupees or both the sentences, in the case of any other kind of injury caused by a reckless act, (b) A sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees or both the sentences in the case of the commission of such offence by a negligent act.
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Section 196: Prohibition of using criminal force:
(1) No person shall use criminal force to another person.
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Section 196: Prohibition of using criminal force:
Subsection (2)
(1) No person shall use A person shall be considered to use criminal force to another person if he or she does any of the following acts: (a) To use any kind of force to that other person with the intention of committing an offence, (b) To use force to that other person with the intention of causing, or knowing it to be likely that the use of such force will cause, injury, fear or annoyance to that other person or his or her family or property, (c) To terrify that other person to apprehend that force will be used to him or her or to threat or intimidate to use force, or attempt to use force, in any other manner, to him or her.
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Section 196: Prohibition of using criminal force:
Subsection (3)
(1) No person shall use Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Section, the use of any force, with one's consent, in the course of imparting teaching, instruction or training on the concerned subject, conducting acting or treatment of any kind or in a manner to render benefit or the use of force of usual nature in the course of having any kind of game shall not be considered to be the use of criminal force. Provided that the provision of this sub-section shall not apply to any malicious use of force to cause injury to any one.
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Section 196: Prohibition of using criminal force:
Subsection (4)
(1) No person shall use A person who uses, or causes to be used, criminal force shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or a fine not exceeding thirty thousand rupees or both the sentences, in the case of using criminal force by carrying a weapon, and to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding ten thousand rupees or both the sentences, in the case of using criminal force without carrying a weapon.
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Section 197: Prohibition of making unconscious with intent to commit
offence: (1) No person shall, with intent to facilitate the commission of any offence, feed or administer, in any other manner, to another person any substance causing unconsciousness, dizziness or unhealthiness or make that other person unconscious in any manner whatsoever.
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Section 197: Prohibition of making unconscious with intent to commit
Subsection (2)
A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offense referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year and a fine not exceeding ten thousand rupees.
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Section 197: Prohibition of making unconscious with intent to commit
Subsection (3)
Where any act referred to in sub-section (1) has resulted in the commission of such offence, the sentence referred to in this Section shall be added to the sentence imposable for such offence.
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Section 198: Compensation: Where any harm, damage or loss is caused to any
person's body, life or property from the commission of the offence referred to in this Chapter, compensation shall be caused to be paid by the offender to the victim.
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Section 199: Statute of limitation: No complaint shall lie, in the case of the
offence referred to in Section 196, after the expiry of three months from the date of its commission, in the case of the offence referred to in Section 197, after the expiry of six months from the date on which such person becomes conscious, and, in the case of any of the other offences referred to in this Chapter, after the expiry of one year from the date of its commission.
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Section 200: Prohibition of unlawful confinement:
(1) No person shall maliciously subject, or cause to be subjected, another person to detention in any other manner except in accordance with law.
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Section 200: Prohibition of unlawful confinement:
Subsection (2)
(1) No person shall A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a fine not exceeding thirty thousand rupees.
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Section 200: Prohibition of unlawful confinement:
Subsection (3)
(1) No person shall No one other than the competent authority shall obstruct, or cause to be obstructed, the movement of any person.
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Section 200: Prohibition of unlawful confinement:
Subsection (4)
(1) No person shall A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (3) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees or both the sentences.
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Section 201: Prohibition of holding in detention without providing minimum
humane facilities: (1) No authority who is competent by law to make detention shall detain, or cause to be detained, any person by depriving him or her of such facilities as required to be provided in accordance with law or of such minimum humane facilities as are available in the place of his or her detention.
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Section 201: Prohibition of holding in detention without providing minimum
Subsection (2)
A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding one and half years and a fine not exceeding fifteen thousand rupees.
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Section 202: Prohibition of detaining person for whose release order has been
issued: (1) No person shall keep on detaining any person held in detention in accordance with law after receiving an order issued by a competent authority under law for the release of such person from detention.
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Section 202: Prohibition of detaining person for whose release order has been
Subsection (2)
A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year and a fine not exceeding ten thousand rupees.
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Section 203: Prohibition of detention in secret:
(1) No competent authority shall hold any person in detention secretly in such a manner that the detention of such person or the place of such detention may not be known or discovered.
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Section 203: Prohibition of detention in secret:
Subsection (2)
(1) No competent authority shall A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding four years and a fine not exceeding forty thousand rupees.
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Section 204: Order for compensation to be paid: A reasonable compensation
shall be ordered to be paid by the offender who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in this Chapter to the victim.
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Section 205: Statute of limitation: No complaint shall lie, in the case of an
offence under sub-section (3) of Section 200, after the expiry of three months from the date of commission of such offence, and in the case of any of the other offences under this Chapter, after the expiry of three months from the date of release of the detained person from such detention.
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Section 206: Prohibition of enforced appearance:
(1) No person shall subject, or cause to be subjected, any one to enforced disappearance.
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Section 206: Prohibition of enforced appearance:
Subsection (2)
(1) No person shall subject, For the purposes of sub-section (1), the term "enforced disappearance” means any of the following acts: (a) The arrest, detention or any other form of control of a person by a person or security personnel having authority by law to make arrest, investigation or enforcement of law, followed by a failure to produce such person before the case trying authority within twenty-four hours of the date of such arrest or deprivation of liberty, excluding the time required for journey, or a refusal to allow the concerned person to meet such person, and/or by concealment of information as to where, how and in what condition such person has been so held, (b) The abduction, custody, control or any other form of deprivation of liberty of a person by any person, organization or group, whether organized or not, followed by concealment of information to the concerned person as to the reason for such deprivation and where, how and in what condition such person has been so held,