The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 · Ch. VI — OF OFFENCES AFFECTING THE HUMAN BODY
Whoever by force compels, or by any deceitful means induces, any person to go from any place, is said to abduct that person.
IPC Section 362 → BNS Section 138 per the official NCRB Sankalan table.
This is the text of IPC Section 362, not of the section above. Read both before relying on either.
Whoever by force compels, or by any deceitful means induces, any person to go from any place, is said to abduct that person. ”.
Source & version
Official text: Gazette of India via MHA (official) ↗
Official Gazette text: The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023), English PDF as hosted by Ministry of Home Affairs (mha.gov.in, file 250883_english_01042024.pdf; canonical mirror indiacode.nic.in bitstream a202345.pdf). Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -layout and @nexlex/ingest gazette-pdf parser on 2026-07-14. Automated parse; structural validation + spot verification of sections 1, 63, 103, 302, 358; full clause-level proofread pending.
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