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Section 420 - Indian Penal Code, 1860
Indian Penal Code, 1860
420. Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property
Whoever cheats and thereby dishonestly induces the person deceived to deliver any property to any person, or to make, alter or destroy the whole or any part of a valuable security, or anything which is signed or sealed, and which is capable of being converted into a valuable security, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Of Fraudulent Deeds and Disposition of Property
Related Sections
- Section 498: Enticing or taking away or detaining with criminal intent a married woman
- Section 178: Refusing oath or affirmation when duly required by public servant to make it
- Section 416: Cheating by personation
- Section 95: Act causing slight harm
- Section 241: Delivery of coin as genuine, which, when first possessed, the deliverer did not know to be counterfeit
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