SECTION 171A IPC - Indian Penal Code - "Candidate", "Electoral right" defined

Description

For the purposes of this Chapter:

  1. 'candidate' means a person who has been nominated as a candidate at any election;
  2. '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.