BNS Section 99: Buying minor for purposes of prostitution, etc
Equivalent Legacy Law: IPC Section 373
Procedural Classification Summary
Buying child for purposes
Bailable: Non-bailable (Bail can only be granted by the Judiciary)
Cognizable: Cognizable (Police can arrest without warrant)
Triable by: Court of Session
Punishment: Imprisonment for not lessof prostitution, etc.than 7 years but which may extend to 14 years and fine
Official Legal Provision / Summary
Minimum mandatory punishment is introduced as seven years, and the upper limit of imprisonment is extended up to fourteen years in BNS, in place of ten years in IPC. Words “any person under the age of eighteen years” are replaced by the word "child'.