IPC Section 362 — Abduction

kidnapping, abduction, slavery and forced labour

Criminal

Summary

A person is said to abduct someone if they use physical force to make that person leave a place, or if they trick or deceive that person into leaving a place.

Official Text

Whoever by force compels, or by any deceitful means induces any person to go from any place, is said to abduct that person.

Related Judgments

  • VISHWANATH vs THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH — Supreme Court of India (1959)
  • Deepti Anil Devasthali and; Leena Anil Devastnali vs State of Maharashtra — Bombay High Court (Mumbai Principal Seat) (2009)
  • SOMASUNDARAM @ SOMU vs THE STATE REP. BY THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF POLICE — Supreme Court of India (2020)
  • SUBHASH KRISHNAN vs STATE OF GOA — Supreme Court of India (2012)

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