CHAPTER 25 OFFENCES RELATING TO MARRIAGE AND INCEST Note - As to action necessary before taking cognizance of certain offence under this Chapter, see sections 133 and 134 of the Criminal Procedure Act, 2003. Section 425 - “Cohabitation caused by a man deceitfully inducing a belief of lawful Marriage”: Every man who by deceit causes any woman who is not lawfully married to him to believe that she is lawfully married to him and to cohabit or have sexual intercourse with him in that belief, shall on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years and may also be liable to fine. Section 426 - “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 on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years and may also be liable to fine. Section 427 - “Adultery with Married Woman”: Whoever has sexual intercourse with a woman who is and whom he has reason to believe to be the wife of another man, such sexual intercourse not amounting to the offence of rape, commits the offence of adultery and shall on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or with fine or with both. Section 428 - “Adultery by Married Woman”: Whoever being a married woman has sexual intercourse with another man commits the offence of adultery and shall on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or with fine or with both. Section 429 - “Enticing or taking away or detaining with criminal intent a married woman”: Whoever takes or entices away any woman, who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the 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 him or any other person or conceals or detains with that intent any such woman, shall on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or with fine of with both. Section 430 - “Incest”: Whoever being a man has sexual intercourse with a woman who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be his daughter, his grand-daughter, his mother or any other of his female ascendants or descendants, his sister or the daughter of his brother or sister or his paternal or maternal aunt or uncle and whoever being a woman voluntarily 115

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