Section 175 BNS Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 – False statement in connection with an election. 175. False statement in connection with an election. Whoever with intent to affect the result of an election makes or publishes any statement purporting to…
Section 174 BNS Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 – Punishment for undue influence or personation at an election. 174. Punishment for undue influence or personation at an election. Whoever commits the offence of undue influence or personation at an election shall…
Section 173 BNS Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 – Punishment for bribery. 173. Punishment for bribery. Whoever commits the offence of bribery shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with…
Section 172 BNS Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 – Personation at elections. 172. Personation at elections. Whoever at an election applies for a voting paper on votes in the name of any other person, whether living or dead, or in a…
Section 171 BNS Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 – Undue influence at elections. 171. Undue influence at elections. (1) Whoever voluntarily interferes or attempts to interfere with the free exercise of any electoral right commits the offence of undue influence at…
Section 170 BNS Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 – Bribery. 170. Bribery. (1) Whoever- (i) gives a gratification to any person with the object of inducing him or any other person to exercise any electoral right or of rewarding any person…
Section 169 BNS Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 – Candidate, electoral right defined. Chapter IX Of Offences Relating to Elections 169. Candidate, electoral right defined. For the purposes of this Chapter- (a) “candidate” means a person who has been nominated as…
Section 168 BNS Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 – Wearing garb or carrying token used by soldier, sailor or airman. 168. Wearing garb or carrying token used by soldier, sailor or airman. Whoever, not being a soldier, sailor or airman in…
Section 167 BNS Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 – Persons subject to certain Acts. 167. Persons subject to certain Acts. No person subject to the Air Force Act, 1950, the Army Act, 1950 and the Navy Act, 1957, or shall be…
Section 166 BNS Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 – Abetment of act of insubordination by soldier, sailor or airman. 166. Abetment of act of insubordination by soldier, sailor or airman. Whoever abets what he knows to be an act of insubordination…