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IPC Section 365 - Kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine person
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IPC Section 365 deals with kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine person.
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365. Kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine person. Whoever
kidnaps or abducts any person with intent to cause that person to be secretly and wrongfully confined,
shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may e xtend to seven years,
and shall also be liable to fine.
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