Section 197
Issuing or signing false certificate.
About this Act
It is expedient to provide a general Penal Code forindia;
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 that such certificate is false in any material point, shall be punished in the same
manner as if he gave false evidence.