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Public servant framing an incorrect document with intent to cause injury

Chapter 12: OF OFFENCES BY OR RELATING TO PUBLIC SERVANTS

Section: 201


Public servant framing an incorrect document with intent to cause injury.

201. 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.

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