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Indian Penal Code

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Concealment of birth by secret disposal of dead body.

Chapter 16: Of Offences Affecting the Human Body

Section: 318


Whoever, by secretly burying or otherwise disposing of the death body of a child whether such child die before or after or during its birth, intentionally conceals or endeavours to conceal the birth of such child, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.

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