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Detention, Detention in the context must mean keeping back a wife from her husband or any other person having the care of her on behalf of her husband with the requisite intention. Such keeping back may be by force; but it need not be by force, Union of India v. Steel Stock Holders Syndicate, (1976) 3 SCC 108: AIR 1976 SC 879: (1976) 3 SCR 504.

Means keeping back a wife from her husband or any other person having the care of her on behalf of her husband with the requisite intention. Such keeping back may be by force; but it need not be by force. It can be the result of persuasion, allurement or blandishments which may either have caused the willingness of the woman, or may have encouraged, or co-operated with, her initial inclination, to leave her husband, Alamgir v. State of Bihar, AIR 1959 SC 436(440) (Penal Code, 1860, s. 492).