Chapter XX · Of Offences Relating to Marriage

Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage

Section 496 · Pakistan Penal Code

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Whoever, dishonestly or with a fraudulent intention, goes through the ceremony of being married, knowing that he is not thereby lawfully married, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.