BNS 244 — Fraudulent claim to property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in execution.

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Statutory text

244. Whoever fraudulently accepts, receives or claims any property
or  any interest  therein,  knowing  that  he  has no  right  or  rightful claim  to
such property or interest, or practises any deception touching any right to
any  property  or  any  interest  therein,  intending  thereby  to  prevent  that
property  or  interest  therein  from  being  taken  as  a  forfeiture  or  in
satisfaction  of  a  fine,  under  a  sentence  which  has  been  pronounced,  or
which he knows to be likely to be pronounced by a Court or other competent
authority, or from being taken in execution of a decree or order which has
been made, or which he knows to be likely to be made by a Court in a civil
suit, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term
which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
Fraudulently suffering decree for sum not due.

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