Offences relating to Army, Navy & Air force

A soldier posted at the Siachen base or a sailor on a ship off Mumbai lives under a discipline no office worker would accept: orders are obeyed, leave is granted, and walking away is a serious wrong. Now imagine a civilian who persuades that soldier to desert, or hides him at home afterwards. The soldier answers to military law, but what about the civilian? Chapter VIII of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita answers exactly that.

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Chapter VIII of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 (ss.159–168, the successor to the IPC chapter on the armed forces) punishes civilians who abet mutiny, assault on a superior, desertion or insubordination in the Army, Navy or Air Force, who harbour a deserter, or who wear a soldier's garb to pass as one.

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