This section covers candidate, electoral right defined in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
CHAPTER IX
OF OFFENCES RELATING TO ELECTIONS
Candidate, electoral right defined. For the purposes of this Chapter—
(a) “candidate” means a person who has been nominated as a candidate at any election;
(b) “electoral right” means the right of a person to stand, or not to stand as, or to withdraw from being, a candidate or to vote or refrain from voting at an election.
What was the old IPC code for Section 169 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, candidate, electoral right defined was covered in S. 171A.