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Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 Act No. 45 of 2023

Chapter IX — OF OFFENCES RELATING TO ELECTIONS

Section 169. Candidate, electoral right defined.

Gazette p. 50

For the purposes of this Chapter—

(a) “candidate” means a person who has been nominated as a candidate at any election;

(b) “electoral right” means the right of a person to stand, or not to stand as, or to withdraw from being, a candidate or to vote or refrain from voting at an election.