SECTION 171D IPC - Indian Penal Code - Personation at elections

Description of IPC Section 171D

According to section 171D of Indian penal code, Whoever at an election applies for a voting paper on votes in the name of any other person, whether living or dead, or in a fictitious name, or who having voted once at such election applies at the same election for a voting paper in his own name, and whoever abets, procures or attempts to procure the voting by any person in any such way, commits the offence of personation at an election.

IPC 171D in Simple Words

Section 171D of the Indian Penal Code states that anyone who applies for a voting paper in someone else's name or uses a fictitious name to vote, or tries to vote more than once in the same election, and anyone who helps or encourages such actions, commits the offence of personation at an election.