Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Chapter 09 Offences Relating To Elections

Section 169: Candidate, electoral right defined.

For the purposes of this Chapter,

  1. “candidate” means a person who has been nominated as a candidate at any election;
  2. “electoral right” means the right of a person to stand, or not to stand as, or to withdraw from being, a candidate or to vote or refrain from voting at an election.


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