Section 496 Ipc

Classification of offences under section 493 494 495 496 497 and 498 of indian penal code 1860 offences relating to marriage and punishment for the crime are defined under section 493 494 495 496 497 and 498 of indian penal code 1860.

Section 496 ipc. Section 496 defines the offence of fraud marriage. The section state as when any person other than a person accused of a non bailable offence is arrested or detained without warrant by an officer in charge of a police station or appears or is brought before a court and is prepared at any time while in the custody of such officer or at any stage of the proceedings before such court to give bail such person shall be released on bail. Dishonestly or fraudulently going through the ceremony of being married knowing that no lawful marriage has taken place has been made punishable under this section.

Such mock or fraud marriages are punished under this section. Legal provisions of section 496 of indian penal code 1860. Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage.

Section 496 in the indian penal code 496. Section 498 enticing or taking away or detaining with criminal intent a married woman. Chapter xx offences relating to 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. A person who with fraud or dishonest intention of knowing to the nature of marriage ceremony as invalid goes through such a ceremony is liable to be convicted under section 496. Classification of offences relating to these sections are.

496 marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage.