Indian Penal Code, 1860
Section - 496 - Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage
Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage.
496. 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.
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