BNS 201 — Public servant framing an incorrect document with intent to cause injury.

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Statutory text

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.
Public servant unlawfully engaging in trade.

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