BNS Section 244 — Fraudulent claim to property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in execution
Section 244 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Fraudulent claim to property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in execution”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
244. Fraudulent claim to property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in execution.—Whoever fraudulently accepts, receives or claims any property or any interest therein, knowing that he has no right or rightful claim to such property or interest, or practises any deception touching any right to any property or any interest therein, intending thereby to prevent that property or interest therein from being taken as a forfeiture or in satisfaction of a fine, under a sentence which has been pronounced, or which he knows to be likely to be pronounced by a Court or other competent authority, or from being taken in execution of a decree or order which has been made, or which he knows to be likely to be made by a Court in a civil suit, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both. ¶
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