● Retained in BNS
Section 415 IPC defined cheating: deceiving a person to fraudulently or dishonestly induce them to deliver property, or to do or omit anything they would not otherwise do, causing or likely to cause damage or harm.
BNS Section 318(1) retains the definition of cheating in substantially the same terms, with the illustrations carried over.
Definition carried over substantially unchanged; renumbered from IPC 415 to BNS 318(1).
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