{"id":1549,"date":"2019-10-11T11:37:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T11:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2019-10-11T11:37:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T11:37:09","slug":"s-376c-sexual-intercourse-by-a-person-in-authority-the-indian-penal-code-1860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/s-376c-sexual-intercourse-by-a-person-in-authority-the-indian-penal-code-1860\/","title":{"rendered":"S 376C. Sexual intercourse by a person in authority.\u2014 The Indian Penal Code, 1860"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>376C. Sexual intercourse by a person in authority.\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whoever, being\u2014<br \/>\n(a) in a position of authority or in a fiduciary relationship; or<br \/>\n(b) a public servant; or<br \/>\n(c) superintendent or manager of a jail, remand home or other place of custody established by or under any law for the time being in force, or a women&#8217;s or children&#8217;s institution; or<br \/>\n(d) on the management of a hospital or being on the staff of a hospital,<br \/>\nabuses such position or fiduciary relationship to induce or seduce any woman either in his custody or under his charge or present in the premises to have sexual intercourse with him, such sexual intercourse<br \/>\nnot amounting to the offence of rape, shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment of either description for a term which shall not be less than five years, but which may extend to ten years, and shall also be<br \/>\nliable to fine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation 1.\u2014<\/strong>In this section, \u201csexual intercourse\u201d shall mean any of the acts mentioned in clauses (a) to (d) of section <a href=\"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/s-375-rape-the-indian-penal-code-1860\/\">375<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation 2.\u2014<\/strong>For the purposes of this section, Explanation 1 to section <a href=\"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/s-375-rape-the-indian-penal-code-1860\/\">375<\/a> shall also be applicable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation 3.\u2014<\/strong>\u201cSuperintendent\u201d, in relation to a jail, remand home or other place of custody or a women&#8217;s or children&#8217;s institution, includes a person holding any other office in such jail, remand home, place or institution by virtue of which such person can exercise any authority or control over its inmates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation 4.\u2014<\/strong>The expressions \u201chospital\u201d and \u201cwomen&#8217;s or children&#8217;s institution\u201d shall respectively have the same meaning as in Explanation to sub-section (2) of section<a href=\"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/s-376-punishment-for-rape-the-indian-penal-1860\/\"> 376<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 376C. Sexual intercourse by a person in authority.\u2014 Whoever, being\u2014 (a) in a position of authority or in a fiduciary relationship; or (b) a public servant; or (c) superintendent or manager of a jail, remand home or other place of custody established by or under any law for the time being in force, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/s-376c-sexual-intercourse-by-a-person-in-authority-the-indian-penal-code-1860\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;S 376C. Sexual intercourse by a person in authority.\u2014 The Indian Penal Code, 1860&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1585],"tags":[2977,2971,2970,27,2974,2975,3514,3536,3551,3571,2972],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}