## IPC 167

### IPC 167 — Public servant framing an incorrect document with intent to cause injury
- https://unisonlegal.in/statutes/ipc/167

> 167. Public servant framing an incorrect document with intent to cause injury.-Whoever, being
a public servant, and being, as 3[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

1. Ins. by Act 13 of 2013, s. 3 (w.e.f. 03-02-2013).
2. Subs. by Act 22 of 2018, s. 2, for "section 376B, section 376C, section 376D" (w.e.f. 21-4-2018).
3. Subs. by Act 21 of 2000, s. 91 and the First Sch., for certain words (w.e.f. 17-10-2000).
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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.