BNS Section 23

Section 23 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) deals with the defense of involuntary intoxication.

IPC Section 85

Nothing is an offence which is done by a person who, at the time of doing it, is, by reason of intoxication, incapable of knowing the nature of the act, or that he is doing what is either wrong, or contrary to law; unless that the thing which intoxicated him was administered to him without his knowledge or against his will.

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