Section 234 Earlier IPC 197
Issuing or signing false certificate
Chapter 14: False evidence and offences against public justice
Whoever 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.
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 45 of 2023). As printed in the Gazette on 25 December 2023. Later amendments, if any, are not included.
Related sections
- 231Giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of offence punishable with imprisonment for life or imprisonmentIPC 195
- 232Threatening any person to give false evidenceIPC 195A
- 233Using evidence known to be falseIPC 196
- 235Using as true a certificate known to be falseIPC 198
- 236False statement made in declaration which is by law receivable as evidenceIPC 199
- 237Using as true such declaration knowing it to be falseIPC 200