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IPC Section 495 - Same offence with concealment of former marriage from person with whom subs equent
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IPC Section 495 deals with same offence with concealment of former marriage from person with whom subs equent.
Full official legal text
495. Same offence with concealment of former marriage from person with whom subs equent
marriage is contracted. --Whoever commits the offence defined in the last preceding section having
concealed from the person with whom the sub sequent marriage is contracted, the fact of the former
marriage, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten
years, and shall also be liable to fine.
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