BNS Section 201 — Public servant framing an incorrect document with intent to cause injury

Summary

A public servant who is officially responsible for preparing or translating a document or electronic record, and who frames, prepares, or translates it in a way that they know or believe to be incorrect, with the intention of causing injury to any person, or knowing that it is likely to cause such injury, commits an offence. The punishment for this offence is imprisonment of either kind for a term that may extend to three years, or a fine, or both.

Official Text

Whoever, being a public servant, and being, as such public servant, charged with the preparation or translation of any document or electronic record, frames, prepares or translates that document or electronic record in a manner which he knows or believes to be incorrect, intending thereby to cause or knowing it to be likely that he may thereby cause injury to any person, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.

Related Judgments

• SC (2025) Vol.3 p.1309 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
• SC (2025) Vol.11 p.291 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
• SC (2025) Vol.3 p.1531 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
• SC (2025) Vol.6 p.280 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
• SC (2025) Vol.2 p.80 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
• CRL A/1033/2002 — Madras High Court (2002)
• N.Elangovan .. Petitioner vs 1.Mohana Sugumaran — Madras High Court (2011)
• SC (2024) Vol.8 p.670 — Supreme Court of India (2024)

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• IPC §167 — Public servant framing an incorrect document with intent to cause injury