Of Offences Against Women and Children

महिलाओं और बच्चों के विरुद्ध अपराधों के बारे में

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Last updated Aug 8, 2025
📘 Bill Name
Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023
🔢 Chapter Number
5
🌐 Title (EN)
Of Offences Against Women and Children
🌍 Title (HI)
महिलाओं और बच्चों के विरुद्ध अपराधों के बारे में
📄 Sections
37
📝 Overview (EN)
This chapter provides comprehensive protection for women and children, covering sexual offences incl...
🌐 Overview (HI)
यह अध्याय महिलाओं और बच्चों के लिए व्यापक सुरक्षा प्रदान करता है, जिसमें बलात्कार और इसकी विविधताओं...
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Overview of Chapter V of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 covering comprehensive protection for women an...
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BNS women protection, children protection, sexual offences, rape, dowry death, stalking, harassment
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📜 What is Of Offences Against Women and Children?

This chapter provides comprehensive protection for women and children, covering sexual offences including rape and its variations, criminal force and assault against women, marriage-related offences, miscarriage, and specific offences against children with enhanced punishments.
यह अध्याय महिलाओं और बच्चों के लिए व्यापक सुरक्षा प्रदान करता है, जिसमें बलात्कार और इसकी विविधताओं सहित यौन अपराध, महिलाओं के खिलाफ आपराधिक बल और हमला, विवाह संबंधी अपराध, गर्भपात, और बच्चों के खिलाफ विशिष्ट अपराध बढ़े हुए दंडों के साथ शामिल हैं।

📄 Sections in Of Offences Against Women and Children

# Section Title
63 Rape
64 Punishment for rape
65 Punishment for rape in certain cases
66 Punishment for causing death or resulting in persistent vegetative state of victim
67 Sexual intercourse by husband upon his wife during separation
68 Sexual intercourse by a person in authority
69 Sexual intercourse by employing deceitful means, etc.
70 Gang rape
71 Punishment for repeat offenders
72 Disclosure of identity of victim of certain offences, etc.
73 Printing or publishing any matter relating to Court proceedings without permission
74 Assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty
75 Sexual harassment
76 Assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to disrobe
77 Voyeurism
78 Stalking
79 Word, gesture or act intended to insult modesty of a woman
80 Dowry death
81 Cohabitation caused by man deceitfully inducing belief of lawful marriage
82 Marrying again during lifetime of husband or wife
83 Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage
84 Enticing or taking away or detaining with criminal intent a married woman
85 Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty
86 Cruelty defined
87 Kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage, etc.
88 Causing miscarriage
89 Causing miscarriage without woman's consent
90 Death caused by act done with intent to cause miscarriage
91 Act done with intent to prevent child being born alive or to cause to die after birth
92 Causing death of quick unborn child by act amounting to culpable homicide
93 Exposure and abandonment of child under twelve years of age, by parent or person having care of it
94 Concealment of birth by secret disposal of dead body
95 Hiring, employing or engaging a child to commit an offence
96 Procuration of child
97 Kidnapping or abducting child under ten years of age with intent to steal from its person
98 Selling child for purposes of prostitution, etc.
99 Buying child for purposes of prostitution, etc.

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