The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

CHAPTER V OF OFFENCES AGAINST WOMAN AND CHILD

Section 83: Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage.

Whoever, dishonestly or with a fraudulent intention, goes through the ceremony of being married, knowing that he is not thereby lawfully married, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.

About The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

An Act to consolidate and amend the provisions relating to offences and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.