BNS · Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Section 201 — Public servant framing an incorrect document with intent to cause injury.
Replaces IPC Section 167.
Whoever, being a public servant, and being, as such public servant, charged with the preparation or translation of any document or electronic record, frames, prepares or translates that document or electronic record in a manner which he knows or believes to be incorrect, intending thereby to cause or knowing it to be likely that he may thereby cause injury to any person, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.
Nearby sections
- 198 Public servant disobeying law, with intent to cause injury to any person.
- 199 Public servant disobeying direction under law.
- 200 Punishment for non-treatment of victim.
- 202 Public servant unlawfully engaging in trade.
- 203 Public servant unlawfully buying or bidding for property.
- 204 Personating a public servant.
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