Every man, who by deceit causes any woman who is not lawfully married to him to believe that she is lawfully married to him and to cohabit or have sexual intercourse with him in that belief, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Section history
Section 493
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 493 — Original text to 1 January 2020superseded
[Indian PC 1860, s. 493]
Section 493 — From 1 January 2020 (current)repealed by Criminal Law Reform Act 2019
[Repealed by Act 15 of 2019 wef 01/01/2020]