Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Chapter 09 Offences Relating To Elections
Section 169: Candidate, electoral right defined.
For the purposes of this Chapter,
- “candidate” means a person who has been nominated as a candidate at any election;
- “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.