Whoever fraudulently or dishonestly, or with intent to cause damage or injury to the public or to any person, cancels, destroys, or defaces, or attempts to cancel, destroy, or deface, or secretes, or attempts to secrete any document which is or purports to be a will, or an authority to adopt a child, or any valuable security, or commits mischief in respect to such document, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 15 years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Section history
Section 477 — Fraudulent cancellation, destruction, etc., of a will
As in force on 2 January 2011.
Timeline 3 versions
- 30 March 1987 Enacted
- 1 February 2008 Act 51 of 2007
- 2 January 2011 You are here
- 17 August 2026 Latest
[Indian PC 1860, s. 477]