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Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Section 169: Candidate, electoral right defined

Chapter IX — Of Offences Relating to Elections

169. For the purposes of this Chapter—

(a) “candidate” means a person who has been nominated as a candidate at any election;

(b) “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.

Source: official text of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Ministry of Home Affairs).