Section 340 Earlier IPC 470, 471
Forged document or electronic record and using it as genuine
Chapter 18: Offences relating to documents and property marks
(1) A false document or electronic record made wholly or in part by forgery is designated a forged document or electronic record.
(2) Whoever fraudulently or dishonestly uses as genuine any document or electronic record which he knows or has reason to believe to be a forged document or electronic record, shall be punished in the same manner as if he had forged such document or electronic record.
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 45 of 2023). As printed in the Gazette on 25 December 2023. Later amendments, if any, are not included.
Related sections
- 337Forgery of record of Court or of public register, etcIPC 466
- 338Forgery of valuable security, will, etcIPC 467
- 339Having possession of document described in section 337 or section 338, knowing it to be forged and intending to use it as genuineIPC 474
- 341Making or possessing counterfeit seal, etc., with intent to commit forgery punishable under section 338IPC 472, 473
- 342Counterfeiting device or mark used for authenticating documents described in section 338, or possessing counterfeit marked materialIPC 475, 476
- 343Fraudulent cancellation, destruction, etc., of will, authority to adopt, or valuable securityIPC 477