Sashastra Seema Bal Act, 2007
38. Falsifying official documents and false
declarations.
Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following
offences, namely:.
a. in any
report, return, list, certificate, book or other document made or signed by
him, or of the contents of which it is his duty to ascertain the accuracy,
knowingly makes, or is privy to the making of, any false or fraudulent
statement; or
b. in any
document of the description mentioned in clause (a ) knowingly makes, or
is privy to the making of, any omission, with intent to defraud; or
c. knowingly
and with intent to injure any person, or knowingly and with intent to defraud,
suppresses, defaces, alters or makes away with any document which it is his
duty to preserve or produce; or
d. where
it is his official duty to make a declaration respecting any matter knowingly
makes a false declaration; or
e. obtains
for himself, or for any other person, any pension, allowance or other advantage
or privilege by a statement which is false, and which he either knows or
believes to be false or does not believe to be true, or by making or using a
false entry in any book or record, or by making any document containing a false
statement, or by omitting to make a true entry or document containing a true
statement, shall, on conviction by a Force Court, be liable to suffer
imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years or such less punishment
as is in this Act mentioned.