Public servant framing an incorrect document with intent to cause injury
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Summary
A public servant who prepares or translates any document or electronic record knowing or believing it to be incorrect, and does so intending or likely to cause injury to someone, commits an offence. The rule applies when the official is charged with making or translating the record. Punishment can be imprisonment for up to three years, a fine, or both. The offence is cognizable, bailable and triable by a first-class magistrate.
Example
Priya, a municipal clerk, is asked to translate a land record. She deliberately alters measurements so a neighbour loses a right. Under this provision she can be prosecuted and face up to three years imprisonment, a fine, or both.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhoever, being a public servant, and being, as such public servant, charged with the preparation or translation of any document or electronic record, frames, prepares or translates that document or electronic record in a manner which he knows or believes to be incorrect, intending thereby to cause or knowing it to be likely that he may thereby cause injury to any person, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.
BNSS Classification
- Imprisonment for 3 years, or fine, or both.
- Cognizable
- Bailable
- Triable by Magistrate of the first class.
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