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Section 172 - The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
172. Personation at elections.
Whoever at an election applies for a voting paper on 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:
Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to a person who has been authorised 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.
Related Sections
- Section 355: Misconduct in public by a drunken person
- Section 235: Using as true a Certificate known to be false
- Section 250: Taking gift, etc., to screen an offender from punishment
- Section 52: Abettor when liable to cumulative punishment for act abetted and for act done
- Section 175: False statement in connection with an election
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