CHAPTER XVIII OF OFFENCES RELATING TO DOCUMENTSAND TO PROPERTY MARKS
The Indian Penal Code, 1860 (repealed)
Repealed by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.
Whoever commits forgery, 1[intending that the document or electronic record forged] shall harm the reputation of any party, or knowing that it is likely to be used for that purpose, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine.
As given in the official comparison tables of the Bureau of Police Research and Development and the Allahabad High Court (the NCRB table has no row for it). Read both texts before relying on it.
| IPC 469 | BNS 336(4) |
1 question in 5 of our papers cite Section 469. Try these from the free papers:
1. Consider the following statements under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023: 1. Forgery committed with the intention that the forged document shall be used for the purpose of cheating is punishable with imprisonment up to seven years, and fine. 2. Forgery committed with the intention that the forged document shall harm the reputation of any party is punishable with imprisonment up to three years, and fine. 3. Whoever fraudulently uses as genuine a document which he knows to be forged is punished in the same manner as if he had forged it. 4. Forgery simpliciter under Section 336(2) is punishable with imprisonment up to three years, or fine, or both. Which of the statements given above are correct?