This section covers kidnapping or abducting child under ten to steal from its person in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
Kidnapping or abducting a 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 a fine.
What was the old IPC code for Section 97 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, kidnapping or abducting child under ten to steal from its person was covered in S. 369.