Whoever pretends to hold any particular office as a public servant, knowing that he does not hold such office, or falsely personates any other person holding such office, and in such assumed character does or attempts to do any act under colour of such office, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 2 years, or with fine or with both.
Section history
Section 170 — Personating a public servant
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 170 — Original text to 30 November 2008superseded
Section 170 — From 30 November 2008 (current)rewritten by the Revised Edition
Whoever pretends to hold any particular office as a public servant, knowing that he does not hold such office, or falsely personates any other person holding such office, and in such assumed character does or attempts to do any act under colour of such office, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 2 years, or with fine, or with both.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 170]