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Penal Code, 1860 (Act No. XLV of 1860).
husband or wife has been declared void by a Court of competent jurisdiction,
nor to any person who contracts a marriage during the life of a former husband
or wife, if such husband or wife, at the time of the subsequent marriage, shall
have been continually absent from such person for the space of seven years, and
shall not have been heard of by such person as being alive within that time
provided the person contracting such subsequent marriage shall, before such
marriage takes place, inform the person with whom such marriage is contracted
of the real state of facts so far as the same are within his or her knowledge.
Same offence with
concealment of
former marriage from
person with whom
subsequent marriage
is contracted
495. Whoever commits the offence defined in the last preceding section having
concealed from the person with whom the subsequent marriage is contracted, the
fact of the former marriage, shall be punished with imprisonment of either
description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to
fine.
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.
Adultery
497. Whoever has sexual intercourse with a person who is and whom he knows
or has reason to believe to be the wife of anather man, without the consent or
connivance of that man, such sexual intercourse not amounting to the offence of
rape, is guilty of the offence of adultery, and shall be punished with
imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years, or
with fine, or with both. In such case the wife shall not be punished as an
abettor.
498. Whoever takes or entices away any woman who is and whom he knows or
has reason to believe to be wife of any other man, from that man, or from any
person having the care of her on behalf of that man, with intent that she may
have illicit intercourse with any person, or conceals or detains with that intent
any such woman, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a
term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
Enticing or taking
away or detaining
with criminal intent a
married woman
CHAPTER XXI
OF DEFAMATION
Defamation
499. Whoever by words either spoken or intended to be read, or by signs or by
visible representations, makes or published any imputation concerning any person
intending to harm, or knowing or having reason to believe that such imputation
will harm, the reputation or such person, is said, except in the cases hereinafter
excepted, to defame that person.
Explanation 1.It may amount to defamation to impute any thing to a deceased
person, if the imputation would harm the reputation of that person if living, and
is intended to be hurtful to the feelings of his family or other near relatives.
Explanation 2.It may amount to defamation to make an imputation concerning
a company or an association or collection of persons as such.
Explanation 3.An imputation in the form of an alternative or expressed
ironically, may amount to defamation.
Explanation 4.No imputation is said to harm a person's reputation, unless that
imputation directly or indirectly, in the estimation of others, lowers the moral or
intellectual character of his caste or of his calling, or lowers the credit of that
person, or causes it to be believe that body of that person is in a loathsome
state, or in a state generally considered as disgraceful.
Illustrations
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