IPC Section 218 — Public servant framing incorrect record or writing with intent to save person from punishment or property from forfeiture

false evidence and offences against public justice

Criminal

Summary

A public official who is responsible for preparing official records or documents and knowingly makes them incorrect faces punishment. This applies if the official does so intending to cause harm or loss to the public or any individual, or knowing that harm is likely. It also applies if the official intends to help someone avoid legal punishment, or to protect property from being legally taken or charged. The punishment can be imprisonment for up to three years, a fine, or both.

Official Text

Whoever, being a public servant, and being as such public servant, charged with the preparation of any record or other writing, frames that record or writing in a manner which he knows to be incorrect, with intent to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby cause, loss or injury to the public or to any person, or with intent thereby to save, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby save, any person from legal punishment, or with intent to save, or knowing that he is likely thereby to save, any property from forfeiture or other charge to which it is liable by law, 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

  • S.C.R. SUPREME COURT REPORTS STATE OF PUN.JAB v. JOGINDER SINGH 169 — Supreme Court of India (S)
  • ... Petitioner/Accused vs 1. The State rep by — Madras High Court (2010)
  • M/S BANDEKAR BROTHERS PVT. LTD. & ANR v. PRASAD VASSUDEV KENI, ETC. ETC — Supreme Court of India (2020)
  • .. Petitioner vs 1 State rep by the Chair person — Madras High Court (2018)
  • .. Petitioner/Accused-1 vs 1)State rep.by the Inspector of Police, — Madras High Court (2016)
  • K. P. RAO v. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR — Supreme Court of India (1976)
  • CRL RC/603/2003 — Madras High Court (2003)
  • K. P. SINGH v. H. N. SINGH — Supreme Court of India (1967)

Old <-> New Code Mapping

  • BNS §256 — Public servant framing incorrect record or writing with intent to save person from punishment or property from forfeiture