Whoever forges a document which purports to be a valuable security or a will, or an authority to adopt a son2008child2008, or which purports to give authority to any person to make or transfer any valuable security, or to receive the principal, interest, or dividends thereon, or to receive or deliver any money, movable property, or valuable security, or any document purporting to be an acquittance or receipt, acknowledging the payment of money, or an acquittance or receipt for the delivery of any movable property or valuable security, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 102008a term which may extend to 152008 years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Section history
Section 467 — Forgery of a valuable security or will
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 467 — Original text to 30 November 2008superseded
Section 467 — From 30 November 2008 (current)rewritten by the Revised Edition
Whoever forges a document which purports to be a valuable security or a will, or an authority to adopt a child, or which purports to give authority to any person to make or transfer any valuable security, or to receive the principal, interest, or dividends thereon, or to receive or deliver any money, movable property, or valuable security, or any document purporting to be an acquittance or a receipt, acknowledging the payment of money, or an acquittance or a receipt for the delivery of any movable property or valuable security, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 15 years, and shall also be liable to fine.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 467]