Section 216 (1)
(1) Any person who enforces sexual intercourse by violence or under threat of violence,
shall be guilty of rape and liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six years.
The placing of a person in such position that person is unable to resist the act shall be
equivalent to violence.
(2) If the rape has been of a particularly dangerous nature, or in particularly
aggravating circumstances, the penalty may be increased to imprisonment for any term not
exceeding ten years.
Section 217
Any person who by other unlawful compulsion (as described in section 216 of this Act) than
violence or threat of violence, procures for himself sexual intercourse, shall be liable
to imprisonment for any term not exceeding four years.
Section 218
(1) Any person who, by exploitation of another person's mental illness or mental
deficiency, procures for himself extra-marital sexual intercourse with that person shall
be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding four years.
(2) Any person who procures for himself extra-marital intercourse with a person who is in
such a position that he is unable to resist the act shall be liable to imprisonment for
any term not exceeding four years, unless the act is covered by the provisions of section
216 of this act.
Section 219
Any person who is employed in or in charge of any prison, welfare home, children's or
young person's home, hospital for treatment of mental disorders, institution for the
mentally deficient or any similar institution and who has sexual intercourse with any
person who is an inmate of the same institution shall be liable to imprisonment for any
term not exceeding four years.
Section 220
Any person who, by grave abuse of the subordinate position or economic dependence of
another person, has extra marital sexual intercourse with that person shall be liable to
imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year or, where the person is under 21 years of
age, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three years.
Section 221
Any person who, by a trick, has sexual intercourse with any other person who wrongly
believes to be married with the former or mistakes the perpetrator for some other person
shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six years.
Section 222
(1) Any person who has sexual intercourse with any child under the age of 15 shall be
liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 6 years.
(2) If the child is under the age of 12, or if the perpetrator has enforced the sexual
intercourse by coercion or by intimidation, the penalty may be increased to imprisonment
for any term not exceeding 10 years.
Section 223
Any person who has sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 18 who is his adopted
child, step-child or foster child or who has been entrusted to him for instruction or
education, shall be liable to imprisonment.
The same penalty apply to a person who, by gravely abusing superior age or experience,
induces any person under the age of 18 to sexual intercourse.
Section 224
The provisions in the above sections shall similarly apply in connection with sexual
relations other than sexual intercourse.
Section 225
The provisions in the above sections shall similarly apply in connection with sexual
relations with a person of the same sex.
Section 226
If, in the circumstances provided for in the foregoing, the punishable nature of the act
depends on any abnormal mental or physical condition of the violated person or on the age
of that person, the perpetrator has acted without knowledge of such condition of the
person concerned and if, for that reason, the act is not imputable to him as intentional,
the penalty to be imposed, if he has acted negligently, shall be proportionately reduced.
Section 227
The punishment to be imposed under 216-224 or 226 of this Act may be remitted if the
persons between whom the illicit sexual relations have taken place have since married each
other.
Section 228
(1) Any person who-
1, induces another to seek a profit by sexual immorality with others; or
2, for the purposes of gain, induces another to indulge in sexual immorality with others
or prevent another who engages in sexual immorality as a profession from giving it up; or
3, keeps a brothel
shall be guilty of procuring and liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 4
years.
(2) The same penalty shall apply to any person who incites or helps a person under the age
of 21 to engage in sexual immorality as a profession, or to any person who abets some
other to leave the Kingdom in order that the latter shall engage in sexual immorality as a
profession abroad or shall be used for such immorality, where that person is under the age
of 21 or is at the time ignorant of the purpose.
Section 229
(1) Any person who, for the purpose of gain or in frequently repeated cases, promotes
sexual immorality by acting as an intermediary, or who derives profit from activities of
any person engaging in sexual immorality shall be.
Section 233
Any person who incites or invites other persons to prostitution or exhibits immoral habits
in a manner which is likely to annoy others or arouse public offence be liable to simple
detention or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year or, in mitigating
circumstances , to a fine.
Section 234
Any person who sells immoral pictures or objects to a person under the age of 16 shall be
liable to a fine.
Section 235
(1) Any person who commercially sells or otherwise disseminates, or who, with such an
intention, produces or procures obscene photographs, films or similar objects of children
shall be liable to a fine, to simple detention or to imprisonment for any term not
exceeding 6 months.
(2) Any person who possesses photographs, films or similar of children engaged in sexual
intercourse or other sexual relation other than sexual intercourse shall be liable to a
fine. Similarly liable to a fine is any person who possess photographs, films or similar
objects of children engaged in sexual intercourse with animals or making use of objects in
a grossly obscene manner.