Indian Post Office Act, 1898
51. Penalty for making false entry in register kept by
person employed to carry or deliver postal articles
Whoever, being
employed to carry or deliver any postal article in course of transmission by
post and required while so employed to keep any register, makes, or causes or
suffers to be made, any false entry in the register with intent to induce the
belief that he has visited a place, or delivered a postal article, which he has
not visited or delivered, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term
which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one hundred
rupees, or with both.