Is it a crime to use fake name on certificates

702 votes

Hi,

If you are asking this for knowledge purpose, yes its crime under IPC. Details section given below:

*If you intend to take any action consult a law expert with all relevant documents. Proper advice can be given only after scrutinizing the documents; also what section will be applicable on wife and children depends upon those documents

Section 463 of Indian Penal Code contains provision related to forgery. As per Section 463 Forgery Means

"Whoever makes any false documents or part of a document with intent to cause damage or injury, to the public or to any person, or to support any claim or title, or to cause any person to part with property, or to enter into any express or implied contract, or with intent to commit fraud or that fraud may be committed, commits forgery".

Section 464 of Indian Penal Code contains the following provisions:

A person is said to make a false document-

First- Who dishonestly or fraudulently makes, signs, seals or executes a document or part of a document, or makes any mark denoting the execution of a document, with the intention of causing it to be believed that such document or part of a document was made, signed, sealed or executed by or by the authority of a person by whom or by whose authority he knows that it was not made, signed, sealed or executed, or at a time at which he knows that it was not made, signed, sealed or executed; or

Secondly- Who, without lawful authority, dishonestly or fraudulently, by cancellation or otherwise, alters a document in any material part thereof, after it has been made or executed either by himself or by any other person, whether such person be living or dead at the time of such alteration; or

Thirdly- Who dishonestly or fraudulently causes any person to sign, seal, execute or alter a document, knowing that such person by reason of unsoundness of mind or intoxication cannot, or that by reason of deception practiced upon him, he does not know the contents of the document or the nature of the alteration.

Punishment for Forgery
Whoever commits forgery shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.

Advocate JV Bhosale LawRato

739 votes

Possessing fake name is no crime but using the said name to cause loss to some one or to decive some body there by causing loss to other party and unlawful gain for himself is a crime .Mr natwarlal is one such case .

Advocate Amresh Sharma LawRato