INDIAN PENAL CODE, 1860
BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023
171. Wearing garb or carrying token used by public servant with fraudulent
177. Failure to keep election accounts.
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INDIAN PENAL CODE, 1860
Wearing garb or carrying token used by public servant with fraudulent
intent.
171. Wearing garb or carrying token used by public servant with
fraudulent intent.--Whoever, not belonging to a certain class of
public servants, wears any garb or carries any token resembling any
garb or token used by that class of public servants, with the
intention that it may be believed, or with the knowledge that it is
likely to be believed, that he belongs to that class of public
servants, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description,
for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may
extend to two hundred rupees, or with both.
CHAPTER IXA
OF OFFENCES RELATING TO ELECTIONS
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OF OFFENCES RELATING TO ELECTIONS
Repealed / historical reference India Code — IPC 1860
BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023
177. Failure to keep election accounts.—Whoever being required by any law for the time being in
force or any rule having the force of law to keep accounts of expenses incurred at or in connection with
an election fails to keep such accounts shall be punished with fine which may extend to five thousand
rupees.
Current law India Code — BNS 2023