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IPC Section 197 - Issuing or signing false certificate
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IPC Section 197 deals with issuing or signing false certificate.
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197. Issuing or signing false certificate. Whoever issues or signs any certificate required by law to
be given or signed, or relating to any fact of which such certificate is by law admissible in evidence,
knowing or believing th at such certificate is false in any material point, shall be punished in the same
manner as if he gave false evidence.
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