Compelled marriage prohibition criminalizes kidnapping or inducing a woman to force marriage or illicit intercourse, attracting penal sanctions.

The provision criminalizes kidnapping or abducting a woman with intent, or with knowledge it is likely, that she will be compelled to marry against her will or be forced or seduced into illicit intercourse; it also punishes inducing a woman to go from any place by criminal intimidation, abuse of authority, or other compulsion for the same purposes. The clause prescribes imprisonment of either description which may extend to ten years and liability to fine, with the same punishment applicable to inducement by intimidation, abuse of authority or other compulsion.

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