Section 83 BNS| Section 83 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS)

Section 83 of The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS)

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 be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also

be liable to fine.