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Abduction: (1) The forcible or fradulent taking away of a woman. It is felony:-(a) Where any person from motives of lucre takes away or detains any woman who has any interest in any property (even a presumptive expectation) with intent to marry or carnally know her or to cause her to be married or carnally known. (b) Where any person fradulently allures, takes away or detains with like intent such a woman under 21 out of the possession and against the will of her parent or other person having the lawful care of her. In either of these two cases a person convicted is incapable of taking any estate or interest in the woman's property, (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861. (c) Where any person by force takes away or detains any woman being of age with like intent (Ib. s. 54). It is a misdemeanour:-(a) Where any person takes away an unmarried girl under 16 out of the possession and against the will of her parent or other person having lawful charge of her (Ib. s. 55). A bona fid...
abduction
abduction 1 a : the action of abducting [ of a robbery victim] b : the tort or felony of abducting a person 2 : the unlawful carrying away of a wife or female child or ward for the purpose of marriage or sexual intercourse NOTE: Sense 2 has its roots in common law. As statutorily defined, mainly in the nineteenth century, abduction is generally stated to include taking away or detention of a woman under a certain age, usually 16 or 18, with or without her consent or knowledge of her age. ...
abduct
abduct : to carry or lead (a person) away by threat or use of force or often by fraud ;also : to restrain or conceal (a person) for the purpose of preventing escape or rescue see also kidnapping ab·duc·tor [-dək-tər] n ...
Kidnapping for ransom
Kidnapping for ransom, Whoever kidnaps or abducts any person or keeps a person in detention after such kidnapping or abduction, and threatens to cause death or hurt to such person, or by his conduct gives rise to a reasonable apprehension that such person may be put to death or hurt, or causes hurt or death to such person in order to compel the government or any foreign State or International inter-governmental organisation or any person to do or abstain from doing any act or to pay a ransom, shall be punishable with death, or imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to fine. (Indian Penal Code, s. 364A)...
inveigle
inveigle in·vei·gled in·vei·gling : to lure by false representations or other deceit [whoever unlawfully…s, decoys, kidnaps, abducts, or carries away and holds for ransom or reward or otherwise any person…shall be punished by imprisonment "U.S. Code"] ...
kidnapping
kidnapping or kid·nap·ing n : an act or instance or the crime of seizing, confining, inveigling, abducting, or carrying away a person by force or fraud often with a demand for ransom or in furtherance of another crime ...
Consent
Consent, an act of reason accompanied with delib-erations, the mind weighing, as in a balance, the good or evil on either side. Consent supposes three things-a physical power, a mental power, and a free and serious use of them. Hence it is that if consent be obtained by intimidation, force, meditated impositions, circumvention, surprise, or undue influence, it is to be treated as a delusion, and not as a deliberate and free act of the mind. In relation to Criminal Law, see (English) Criminal Law Amendment Acts, 1885-1922, and see AGE; ABDUCTION.The word 'consent' as used in s. 30(2) of the Sale of Goods Act means 'agreeing on the same thing in the same sense' as defined in s. 13 of the Indian Contract Act. A consent induced by false representation may not be free, but it can nevertheless be real, and ordinarily the effect of fraud or misrepresentation is to render a transaction voidable only and not void, Central National Bank Ltd. v. United Industrial Bank Ltd., AIR 1954 SC 181: (1954...
Kidnapping
Kidnapping [fr. kind, Dut., a child, and nap, to steal], the forcible abduction or stealing away of a man, woman, or child from their own country, and sending them into another. It is an offence punishable at Common Law by fine and imprisonment; and the kidnapping a child under fourteen is made felony by the (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100), s. 56.See also (English) Pacific Islanders Protection Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 19) (amended by 38 & 39 Vict. c. 51), for the prevention and punishment of criminal outrages upon natives of the islands in the Pacific Ocean....
Maghvia
Maghvia, the word 'maghvia' does not connote that the woman had been abducted by the accused, Vidya Parkash v. State, AIR 1954 Pepsu 72....
Nun
Nun (monialis), a female bound by vows of celibacy, living in company with other nuns in a nunnery or convent. An obsolete (English) Act of 1285 (13 Edw. 1,c. 6) (Statute of Westminster the Second) punishes the abduction of a nun, though consenting, from her convent by three years' imprisonment and fine. Nuns are excepted from Jury Service by 12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 11....
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