Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
BNS Section 172
Personation at elections
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BNS Section 172 deals with personation at elections and replaces IPC 171D.
Bare act text — BNS 172
172. Personation at elections.
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: Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to a person who has been authorised to vote as proxy for an elector under any law for the time being in force in so far as he votes as a proxy for such elector.
Frequently asked
What was BNS Section 172 in the IPC?
BNS Section 172 (Personation at elections) replaces Section 171D of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. IPC 171D is now BNS 172.
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Nearby BNS sections
- BNS 167 — Persons subject to certain Acts
- BNS 168 — Wearing garb or carrying token used by soldier, sailor or airman
- BNS 169 — Candidate, electoral right defined
- BNS 170 — Bribery
- BNS 171 — Undue influence at elections
- BNS 173 — Punishment for bribery
- BNS 174 — Punishment for undue influence or personation at an election
- BNS 175 — False statement in connection with an election
- BNS 176 — Illegal payments in connection with an election
- BNS 177 — Failure to keep election accounts