Having possession of document described in section 337 or 338, knowing it to be forged and intending to use it as genuine
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Summary
Possessing a forged document or electronic record, knowing it is forged and intending it to be used as genuine, is a criminal offence. For certain specified categories the punishment is imprisonment for up to seven years and a fine. For more serious specified documents the offender may face life imprisonment, or imprisonment for up to seven years, and a fine.
Example
Priya keeps a forged government land title she plans to show to a bank to claim ownership. Because she possessed the forged document knowing it was forged and intended to use it as genuine, she can be prosecuted. If that land title is in the more serious category she faces life imprisonment or up to seven years and a fine; if it is of the less serious specified kind, she faces up to seven years and a fine.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhoever has in his possession any document or electronic record, knowing the same to be forged and intending that the same shall fraudulently or dishonestly be used as genuine, shall, if the document or electronic record is one of the description mentioned in section 335 of this Sanhita, be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine; and if the document is one of the description mentioned in section 336, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description, for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.
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