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Section 216 - The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
216. False statement on oath or affirmation to public servant or person authorised to administer an oath or affirmation.
Whoever, being legally bound by an oath or affirmation to state the truth on any subject to any public servant or other person authorised by law to administer such oath or affirmation, makes, to such public servant or other person as aforesaid, touching that subject, any statement which is false, and which he either knows or believes to be false or does not believe to be true, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Related Sections
- Section 340: Forged document or electronic record and using it as genuine
- Section 119: Voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal act
- Section 223: Disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant
- Section 117: Voluntarily causing grievous hurt
- Section 332: House-trespass in order to commit offence
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