BNS · Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Section 234 — Issuing or signing false certificate.
Replaces IPC Section 197.
Whoever issues or signs any certificate required by law to be given or signed, or relating to any fact of which such certificate is by law admissible in evidence, knowing or believing that such certificate is false in any material point, shall be punished in the same manner as if he gave false evidence.
Nearby sections
- 231 Giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of offence punishable with imprisonment for life or imprisonment.
- 232 Threatening any person to give false evidence.
- 233 Using evidence known to be false.
- 235 Using as true a certificate known to be false.
- 236 False statement made in declaration which is by law receivable as evidence.
- 237 Using as true such declaration knowing it to be false.
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