Refusing to sign statement
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Summary
Refusing to sign a statement when a public servant who has legal authority to require your signature asks you to do so is an offence. The punishment can be simple imprisonment for up to three months, or a fine up to five hundred rupees, or both. It applies only when the request comes from a public servant legally competent to demand the signature.
Example
Priya gives a written account to a magistrate about a theft. The magistrate asks her to sign the statement but she refuses. Under this rule she can face simple imprisonment for up to three months, or a fine up to Rs 500, or both.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhoever refuses to sign any statement made by him, when required to sign that statement by a public servant legally competent to require that he shall sign that statement, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.
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