Section 169 - Candidate, electoral right defined - Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

CHAPTER IX OF OFFENCES RELATING TO ELECTIONS Candidate, electoral right defined. 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.