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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.
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- Section 32: Act to which a person is compelled by threats
- Section 243: Fraudulent removal or concealment of property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in execution
- Section 142: Wrongfully concealing or keeping in confinement, kidnapped or abducted person
- Section 334: Dishonestly breaking open receptacle containing property
- Section 59: Public servant concealing design to commit offence which it is his duty to prevent
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