BNS Section 234 — Issuing or signing false certificate
Section 234 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Issuing or signing false certificate”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
234. Issuing or signing false certificate.—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. ¶
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