BNS · Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Section 215 — Refusing to sign statement.
Replaces IPC Section 180.
Whoever refuses to sign any statement made by him, when required to sign that statement by a public servant legally competent to require that he shall sign that statement, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to three thousand rupees, or with both.
Nearby sections
- 212 Furnishing false information.
- 213 Refusing oath or affirmation when duly required by public servant to make it.
- 214 Refusing to answer public servant authorised to question.
- 216 False statement on oath or affirmation to public servant or person authorised to administer an oath or affirmation.
- 217 False information, with intent to cause public servant to use his lawful power to injury of another person.
- 218 Resistance to taking of property by lawful authority of a public servant.
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