Wearing garb or carrying token used by public servant with fraudulent intent
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Summary
Wearing clothes or carrying a token that looks like those used by a class of public servants, when you do not belong to that class and intend or know others are likely to believe you are a public servant, is an offence. The offender may be jailed for up to three months, or fined up to two hundred rupees, or both. It targets pretending to be an official to deceive others.
Example
Ravi buys and wears a police uniform to drive through a roadblock so that officers will let him pass. Because he is not a police officer and meant people to believe he was, he can be punished with up to three months imprisonment or a fine up to two hundred rupees, or both.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhoever, not belonging to a certain class of public servants, wears any garb or carries any token resembling any garb or token used by that class of public servants, with the intention that it may be believed, or with the knowledge that it is likely to be believed, that he belongs to that class of public servants, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description, for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees, or with both.
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