BNS Section 244 — Fraudulent claim to property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in execution

CHAPTER XIV OF FALSE EVIDENCE AND OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE

Criminal

Summary

Whoever fraudulently accepts, receives, or claims any property or any interest in it, knowing that he has no right or rightful claim to that property or interest, or practises any deception regarding any right to any property or any interest in it, intending to prevent that property or interest from being taken as a forfeiture or in satisfaction of a fine under a sentence that has already been pronounced, or that he knows is likely to be pronounced by a Court or other competent authority, or from being taken in execution of a decree or order that has been made, or that he knows is likely to be made by a Court in a civil suit, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term that may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.

Official Text

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.

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.6 p.280 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
  • SC (2025) Vol.3 p.1531 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
  • SC (2024) Vol.8 p.670 — Supreme Court of India (2024)
  • SC (2024) Vol.6 p.129 — Supreme Court of India (2024)
  • SC (2025) Vol.9 p.283 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
  • SC (2025) Vol.4 p.2730 — Supreme Court of India (2025)

Old <-> New Code Mapping

  • IPC §207 — Fraudulent claim to property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in execution