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Section 216 - The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
216. False statement on oath or affirmation to public servant or person authorised to administer an oath or affirmation.
Whoever, being legally bound by an oath or affirmation to state the truth on any subject to any public servant or other person authorised by law to administer such oath or affirmation, makes, to such public servant or other person as aforesaid, touching that subject, any statement which is false, and which he either knows or believes to be false or does not believe to be true, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Related Sections
- Section 61: Criminal conspiracy
- Section 111: Organised crime
- Section 105: Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder
- Section 102: Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intended
- Section 218: Resistance to taking of property by lawful authority of a public servant
Related Acts
- National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research (Amendment) Act, 2017
- Commercial Courts, Commercial Division and Commercial Appellate Division of High Courts (Amendment) Act, 2018
- Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015
- India International Arbitration Centre Act, 2019
- Commercial Courts Act, 2015
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