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Section 204 - The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
204. Personating a public servant.
Whoever pretends to hold any particular office as a public servant, knowing that he does not hold such office or falsely personates any other person holding such office, and in such assumed character does or attempts to do any act under colour of such office, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which shall not be less than six months but which may extend to three years and with fine.
Related Sections
- Section 263: Resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension of another person
- Section 160: Abetment of mutiny, if mutiny is committed in consequence thereof
- Section 234: Issuing or signing false certificate
- Section 183: Effacing writing from substance bearing Government stamp, or removing from document a stamp used for it, with intent to cause loss to Government
- Section 192: Wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot-if rioting be committed; if not committed
Related Acts
- Footwear Design and Development Institute Act, 2017
- Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes (Production, Manufacture, Import, Export, Transport, Sale, Distribution, Storage and Advertisement) Act, 2019
- National Dental Commission Act, 2023
- Bilateral Netting of Qualified Financial Contracts Act, 2020
- Coal Mines (Special Provisions) Act, 2015
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