The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

§97 — Kidnapping or abducting child under ten years of age with intent to steal from its person

Whoever kidnaps or abducts any child under the age of ten years with the intention of taking dishonestly any movable property from the person of such child, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.

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Old lawIPC §369Kidnapping or abducting child under ten years with intent to steal from its person New lawBNS §97Kidnapping or abducting child under ten years of age with intent to steal from its person

IPC §369 → BNS §97 per the official NCRB Sankalan table.

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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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