WritingLaw (Page 44)

78. Stalking. (1) Any man who: (i) follows a woman and contacts, or attempts to contact such woman to foster personal interaction repeatedly despite aRead More →

79. Word, gesture or act intended to insult modesty of a woman. Whoever, intending to insult the modesty of any woman, utters any words, makesRead More →

Of offences relating to marriage 80. Dowry death. (1) Where the death of a woman is caused by any burns or bodily injury or occursRead More →

81. Cohabitation caused by man deceitfully inducing belief of lawful marriage. Every man who by deceit causes any woman who is not lawfully married toRead More →

82. Marrying again during lifetime of husband or wife. (1) Whoever, having a husband or wife living, marries in any case in which such marriageRead More →

83. Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage. Whoever, dishonestly or with a fraudulent intention, goes through the ceremony of being married, knowing thatRead More →

84. Enticing or taking away or detaining with criminal intent a married woman. Whoever takes or entices away any woman who is and whom heRead More →

85. Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty. Whoever, being the husband or the relative of the husband of aRead More →

86. Cruelty defined. For the purposes of section 85, “cruelty” means: (a) any wilful conduct which is of such a nature as is likely toRead More →

87. Kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage, etc. Whoever kidnaps or abducts any woman with intent that she may be compelled, orRead More →

Of causing miscarriage, etc. 88. Causing miscarriage. Whoever voluntarily causes a woman with child to miscarry, shall, if such miscarriage be not caused in goodRead More →

89. Causing miscarriage without woman’s consent. Whoever commits the offence under section 88 without the consent of the woman, whether the woman is quick withRead More →

90. Death caused by act done with intent to cause miscarriage. (1) Whoever, with intent to cause the miscarriage of a woman with child, doesRead More →

91. Act done with intent to prevent child being born alive or to cause to die after birth. Whoever before the birth of any childRead More →

92. Causing death of quick unborn child by act amounting to culpable homicide. Whoever does any act under such circumstances, that if he thereby causedRead More →

Of offences against child 93. Exposure and abandonment of child under twelve years of age, by parent or person having care of it. Whoever beingRead More →