BNS Section 216 — False statement on oath or affirmation to public servant or person authorised to administer an oath or affirmation
Section 216 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “False statement on oath or affirmation to public servant or person authorised to administer an oath or affirmation”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
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. ¶
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