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Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Section 69, BNS: Sexual intercourse by employing deceitful means, etc

Pundora · Published 3 October 2026

Section 69 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, in the Act's own words.

What it replaces

Nothing: the official comparison summary marks this provision as new in the BNS, with no equivalent in the Indian Penal Code, 1860. The whole table: IPC to BNS.

The section

69. Sexual intercourse by employing deceitful means, etc.

Whoever, by deceitful means or by making promise to marry to a woman without any intention of fulfilling the same, has sexual intercourse with her, such sexual intercourse not amounting to the offence of rape, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years and shall also be liable to fine. Explanation.— “deceitful means” shall include inducement for, or false promise of employment or promotion, or marrying by suppressing identity.

The text is India Code's consolidated text as loaded into Pundora's statute corpus on 1 September 2026. A section quoted in a draft checked by Pundora is checked against this text.

Sources

  1. India Code: Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, section 69 (read 1 September 2026)
  2. Bureau of Police Research and Development: comparison summary, BNS to IPC (read 1 September 2026)

The Act's own words, from India Code. If the text here differs from the Gazette, the Gazette governs; write to contact@pundora.in and it will be corrected and dated.