Forgery of valuable security, will, etc
Chapter 18: Offences relating to documents and property marks
Whoever forges a document which purports to be a valuable security or a will, or an authority to adopt a son, or which purports to give authority to any person to make or transfer any valuable security, or to receive the principal, interest or dividends thereon, or to receive or deliver any money, movable property, or valuable security, or any document purporting to be an acquittance or receipt acknowledging the payment of money, or an acquittance or receipt for the delivery of any movable property or valuable security, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
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
- 335Making a false documentIPC 464
- 336ForgeryIPC 463, 465
- 337Forgery of record of Court or of public register, etcIPC 466
- 339Having possession of document described in section 337 or section 338, knowing it to be forged and intending to use it as genuineIPC 474
- 340Forged document or electronic record and using it as genuineIPC 470, 471
- 341Making or possessing counterfeit seal, etc., with intent to commit forgery punishable under section 338IPC 472, 473