BNS Section 244

BNS section 244, titled "Fraudulent claim to property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in execution," deals with individuals who fraudulently claim ownership of property to prevent it from being seized as a forfeiture or in execution of a court order or decree. BNS section 224, which corresponds to Section 224 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), deals with threatening a public servant to influence their official duties.
Whoever fraudulently accepts, receives or claims any property or any interest therein, knowing that he has no right or rightful claim to such property or interest, or practices any deception touching any right to any property or any interest therein, intending thereby to prevent that property or interest therein from being taken as a forfeiture or in satisfaction of a fine, under a sentence which has been pronounced, or which he knows to be likely to be pronounced by a Court or other competent authority, or from being taken in execution of a decree or order which has been made, or which he knows to be likely to be made by a Court in a civil suit, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.

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