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IPC Section 171 - Wearing garb or carrying token used by public servant with fraudulent intent
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Simple language explanation
IPC Section 171 deals with wearing garb or carrying token used by public servant with fraudulent intent.
Full official legal text
171. Wearing garb or carrying token used by public servant with fraudulent intent. Whoever,
not belonging to a certain class of public servants, wears any garb or carries any token resembling any
garb or token used by that class of public servants, with t he intention that it may be believed, or with the
knowledge that it is likely to be believed, that he belongs to that class of public servants, shall be
punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three months, or with
fine which may extend to two hundred rupees, or with both.
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