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Section 376B IPC — Intercourse by public servant with woman in his custody

Indian Penal Code, 1860 · Official PDF page 151

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376B. Intercourse by public servant with woman in his custody.-- Whoever, being a public servant, takes advantage of his official position and induces or seduces, any woman, who is in his custody as such public servant or in the custody of a public servant subordinate to him, to have sexual intercourse with him, such sexual intercourse not amounting to the offence of rape, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years and shall also be liable to fine.

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