Of Offences Against Woman And Child
BNS Section 98 - Selling child for purposes of prostitution, etc
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98. Selling child for purposes of prostitution, etc.--Whoever sells, lets to hire, or otherwise
disposes of any child with intent that such child shall at any age be employed or used for the purpose of
prostitution or illicit intercourse with any person or for any unlawful and immoral purpose, or knowing it
to be likely that such child will at any age be employed or used for any such purpose, shall be punished
with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable
to fine.
Explanation 1.-- When a female under the age of eighteen years is sold, let for hire, or otherwise
disposed of to a prostitute or to any person who keeps or manages a brothel, the person so disposing of
such female shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed to have disposed of her with the intent that
she shall be used for the purpose of prostitution.
Explanation 2.-- For the purposes of this section “illicit intercourse” means sexual intercourse
between persons not united by marriage or by any union or tie which, though not amounting to a
marriage, is recognised by the personal law or custom of the community to which they belong or, where
they belong to different communities, of both such communities, as constituting between them a
quasi-marital relation.