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Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 Act No. 45 of 2023

Chapter V — OF OFFENCES AGAINST WOMAN AND CHILD Of offences relating to marriage

Section 83. Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage.

Gazette p. 29

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.