Chapter IXA — Of Offences Relating To Elections

Section 171A — “Candidate”, “Electoral right” defined

Indian Penal Code, 1860 · Free to read

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.