Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023
Section 201 :
Public servant framing an incorrect document with intent to cause injury :
(See section 167 of IPC 1860)
Section : 201
Classification of Offence:
Offence : Public servant framing an incorrect document with intent to cause injury.
Punishment : Imprisonment for 3 years, or fine, or both.
Cognizable or Non-cognizable : Cognizable
Bailable or Non-bailable : Bailable
Compoundable or Non-compoundable : Non-compoundable
By Which Court Triable : Magistrate of the first class.
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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.
Indian Penal Code 1860 (IPC 1860)
Section 167 :
Public servant framing an incorrect document with intent to cause injury:
(See section 201 of BNS 2023)
Classification of Offence:
Offence: Public servant framing an incorrect document with intent to cause injury.
Punishment :Imprisonment for 3 years, or fine, or both.
Cognizable or Non-cognizable :Cognizable
Bailable or Non-bailable :Bailable
Compoundable or Non-compoundable : Non-compoundable
By Which Court Triable :Magistrate of the First class
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Whoever, being a public servant, and being, as 1.[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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1. Subs. by Act 21 of 2000, s. 91 and the First Sch., for certain words (w.e.f. 17-10-2000).