This section covers forgery of valuable security, will, etc. in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
Forgery of valuable security, will, etc. Whoever forges a document which purports to be a valuable security or a will, or an authority to adopt a son, or which purports to give authority to any person to make or transfer any valuable security, or to receive the principal, interest or dividends thereon, or to receive or deliver any money, movable property, or valuable security, or any document purporting to be an acquittance or receipt acknowledging the payment of money, or an acquittance or receipt for the delivery of any movable property or valuable security, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
What was the old IPC code for Section 338 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, forgery of valuable security, will, etc. was covered in S. 467.