BNS · Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Section 338 — Forgery of valuable security, will, etc.
Replaces IPC Section 467.
Whoever forges a document which purports to be a valuable security or a will, or an authority to adopt a son, or which purports to give authority to any person to make or transfer any valuable security, or to receive the principal, interest or dividends thereon, or to receive or deliver any money, movable property, or valuable security, or any document purporting to be an acquittance or receipt acknowledging the payment of money, or an acquittance or receipt for the delivery of any movable property or valuable security, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Nearby sections
- 335 Making a false document.
- 336 Forgery.
- 337 Forgery of record of Court or of public register, etc.
- 339 Having possession of document described in section 337 or section 338, knowing it to be forged and intending to use it as genuine.
- 340 Forged document or electronic record and using it as genuine.
- 341 Making or possessing counterfeit seal, etc., with intent to commit forgery punishable under section 338.
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