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The Penal Code, 1860

Section 171DPersonation at elections

In forceChapter IXA OF OFFENCES RELATING TO ELECTIONS

Chapter IXA OF OFFENCES RELATING TO ELECTIONS

s. 171D

171D. Personation at elections Whoever at an election applies for a voting paper or 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.

End of s. 171D.

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