IPC 167 — Public servant framing an incorrect document with intent to cause injury

Indian Penal Code, 1860

Statutory text

Whoever, being  a  public  servant, and  being, as such public servant, charged with the  preparation or  translation  of  any document, frames or translates that  document  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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