This section covers personation at elections in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
Personation at elections. Whoever at an election applies for a voting paper on votes in the name of any other person, whether living or dead, or in a fictitious name, or who having voted once at such election applies at the same election for a voting paper in his own name, and whoever abets, procures or attempts to procure the voting by any person in any such way, commits the offence of personation at an election: Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to a person who has been authorised to vote as proxy for an elector under any law for the time being in force in so far as he votes as a proxy for such elector.
What was the old IPC code for Section 172 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, personation at elections was covered in S. 171D.