Exploitation of a trafficked person
Chapter 6: Offences affecting the human body
(1) Whoever, knowingly or having reason to believe that a child has been trafficked, engages such child for sexual exploitation in any manner, shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than five years, but which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
(2) Whoever, knowingly or having reason to believe that a person has been trafficked, engages such person for sexual exploitation in any manner, shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than three years, but which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 45 of 2023). As printed in the Gazette on 25 December 2023. Later amendments, if any, are not included.
Related sections
- 140Kidnapping or abducting in order to murder or for ransom, etcIPC 364, 364A
- 141Importation of girl or boy from foreign countryIPC 366B
- 142Wrongfully concealing or keeping in confinement, kidnapped or abducted personIPC 368
- 143Trafficking of personIPC 370
- 145Habitual dealing in slavesIPC 371
- 146Unlawful compulsory labourIPC 374