Indian Penal Code : Issuing or signing false certificate. Indian Bare Acts :

Indian Penal Code,1860

Act No : 45

Section : Issuing or signing false certificate.

197. Issuing or signing false certificate.--Whoever issues orsigns any certificate required by law to be given or signed, orrelating to any fact of which such certificate is by law admissible inevidence, knowing or believing that such certificate is false in anymaterial point, shall be punished in the same manner as if he gavefalse evidence.