BNS Section 201: Public servant framing an incorrect document with intent to cause injury
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 · Chapter 12: Of Offences by or Relating to Public Servants
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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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Other sections in this chapter
- 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
- 205. Wearing garb or carrying token used by public servant with fraudulent intent