This section covers marriage ceremony, fraudulently gone through in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage. 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 a fine.
What was the old IPC code for Section 83 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, marriage ceremony, fraudulently gone through was covered in S. 496.