This section covers wrongfully concealing or keeping in confinement, kidnapped or abducted person in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
Wrongfully concealing or keeping in confinement, kidnapped or abducted person. Whoever, knowing that any person has been kidnapped or has been abducted, wrongfully conceals or confines such person, shall be punished in the same manner as if he had kidnapped or abducted such person with the same intention or knowledge, or for the same purpose as that with or for which he conceals or detains such person in confinement.
What was the old IPC code for Section 142 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, wrongfully concealing or keeping in confinement, kidnapped or abducted person was covered in S. 368.