Indian Penal Code 1860
Section 171D :
Personation at elections:
(See section 172 of BNS 2023)
Whoever at an election applies for a voting paper or votes in the name of any other person, whether living or dead, or in a fictitious name, or who having voted once at such election applies at the same election for a voting paper in his own name, and whoever abets, procures or attempts to procure the voting by any person in any such way, commits the offence of personation at an election.
1.[Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to a person who has been authorized to vote as proxy for an elector under any law for the time being in force in so far as he votes as a proxy for such elector.]
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1. The proviso ins. by Act 24 of 2003, s. 5 (w.e.f. 22-9-2003).
