Yash Dayal Faces Legal Allegations Under BNS Section 69 and Rape Charges
myfrontpage.info · post 56370 · 2026-07-26
NEW DELHI, July 26 — What happens when a new law meets old accusations? India’s Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the criminal code that replaced the colonial-era Indian Penal Code in 2023, contains a provision that has quietly begun to reshape how sexual-exploitation cases are filed. That provision, Section 69, addresses sexual intercourse under a false promise of marriage.
And it is now at the centre of two legal complaints that have stalled the cricketing career of Yash Dayal. The mechanism behind Section 69 is straightforward on paper but legally intricate in practice.
It criminalises a specific form of deception: a person who induces sexual intercourse by making a promise to marry, when they never intended to keep that promise. The law effectively treats that promise as fraud, and the intercourse as non-consensual because consent was obtained through a lie. Prosecutors must prove that the accused had no intention of marrying from the outset—a tricky evidentiary standard that often turns on messages, witness testimony, and patterns of behaviour.
India’s new criminal code bundles this provision alongside reforms to definitions of rape, sexual assault, and the treatment of consent. The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita was enacted in 2023, replacing the British-era Indian Penal Code that had been in force since 1860.
Lawmakers argued the old code was outdated and insufficient for contemporary offences, particularly those involving digital evidence and sexual crimes where consent is conditional.
The complaints against Yash Dayal
The cricketer faces two separate legal complaints. The first, filed in Ghaziabad, invokes Section 69 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. It alleges sexual exploitation under the false promise of marriage.
The second complaint is more grave: it involves an alleged rape, though the specific details of that case have not been publicly specified. These cases have delayed Dayal’s cricketing career.
He is currently under legal review, with both complaints working their way through the Indian court system. Neither case has yet reached a verdict or a formal dismissal. The dual nature of the allegations—one invoking the specific false-promise provision, the other a standard rape charge—means that the legal outcomes could set precedents for how Section 69 interacts with older sections of the penal code that remain in force.
Broader implications of the new code
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita does not exist in isolation. It is one of three new criminal laws passed in 2023, alongside the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (which replaces the Code of Criminal Procedure) and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (which replaces the Indian Evidence Act). Together, they represent the most comprehensive overhaul of India’s criminal justice framework since independence.
Section 69 sits at a particularly sensitive intersection. Cases involving false promises of marriage have long been common in Indian courts, but they were previously handled under broader fraud or rape provisions.
The new code gives them a dedicated legal home—and, some legal scholars argue, clarifies the boundaries of consent. The provision explicitly requires proof of intent to deceive, which means that not every broken promise to marry becomes a criminal offence. Yash Dayal’s case will test how the courts interpret that requirement.
With one complaint already filed under Section 69 and a second rape complaint pending, the legal review will need to decide whether the two allegations are linked, whether the evidence supports the claim of deception from the start, and whether the rape charge can stand independently of the false-promise claim. What to watch next.
The Ghaziabad court is expected to take up the Section 69 complaint for further hearing in the coming weeks. The second, more grave complaint remains under review, and no timeline for its progression has been made public. For the cricketer, the legal process—rather than the pitch—will determine the next phase of his career.
For India’s new criminal code, the outcome may help define what Section 69 actually means in practice.