This section covers deserter concealed on board merchant vessel through negligence of master in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
Deserter concealed onboard merchant vessel through negligence of master. The master or person in charge of a merchant vessel, on board of which any deserter from the Army, Navy or Air Force of the Government of India is concealed, shall, though ignorant of such concealment, be liable to a penalty not exceeding three thousand rupees, if he might have known of such concealment but for some neglect of his duty as such master or person in charge, or but for some want of discipline on board of the vessel.
What was the old IPC code for Section 165 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, deserter concealed on board merchant vessel through negligence of master was covered in S. 137*.