This section covers cohabitation by deceitfully inducing belief of lawful marriage in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
Cohabitation caused by deceitfully inducing belief of lawful marriage. Every man who by deceit causes any woman who is not lawfully married to him to believe that she is lawfully married to him and to cohabit or have sexual intercourse with him in that belief, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
What was the old IPC code for Section 81 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, cohabitation by deceitfully inducing belief of lawful marriage was covered in S. 493.