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IPC Section 368 - Wrongfully concealing or keeping in confinement, kidnapped or abducted person
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IPC Section 368 deals with wrongfully concealing or keeping in confinement, kidnapped or abducted person.
Full official legal text
368. Wrongfully concealing or keeping in confinement, kidnapped or abducted person
Whoever, knowing that any person has been kidnapped or has been abducted, wrongfully conceals or
confines such person, shall be punished in the same manner as if he ha d kidnapped or abducted such
person with the same intention or knowledge, or for the same purpose as that with or for which he
conceals or detains such person in confinement.
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