Issuing or signing false certificate
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Summary
Issuing or signing a certificate that the law requires, or one about a fact the law will accept as evidence, while knowing it is false in any material respect is an offence. The signer is punished in the same manner as a person who gives false evidence. It applies whenever the falsity affects an important point and the certificate is admissible as proof.
Example
Priya, a clinic receptionist, signs a medical certificate saying Rohan has a permanent disability so he can get benefits, even though she knows this is false. Because the certificate is admissible as evidence, Priya can be punished in the same manner as for giving false evidence.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhoever issues or signs any certificate required by law to be given or signed, or relating to any fact of which such certificate is by law admissible in evidence, knowing or believing that such certificate is false in any material point, shall be punished in the same manner as if he gave false evidence.
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