BNS Section 177 — Failure to keep election accounts
Section 177 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Failure to keep election accounts”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
177. Failure to keep election accounts.—Whoever being required by any law for the time being in force or any rule having the force of law to keep accounts of expenses incurred at or in connection with an election fails to keep such accounts shall be punished with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees. ¶
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