This section covers personating public servant in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
Personating a public servant. Whoever pretends to hold any particular office as a public servant, knowing that he does not hold such office or falsely personates any other person holding such office, and in such assumed character does or attempts to do any act under colour of such office, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which shall not be less than six months but which may extend to three years and with fine.
What was the old IPC code for Section 204 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, personating public servant was covered in S. 170*.