law: Registration Act, 1908
  81. Penalty for incorrectly endorsing, copying,
  
  translating or registering documents with intent to injure
  Every registering officer appointed under this Act and every
  
  person employed in his office for the purposes of this Act, who, being charged
  
  with the endorsing, copying, translating or registering of any document
  
  presented or deposited under its provisions, endorses, copies, translates or
  
  registers such document in a manner which he knows or believes to be incorrect,
  
  intending thereby to cause or knowing it to be likely that he may thereby cause
  
  injury, as defined in the Indian Penal Code, to any person, shall be punishable
  
  with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or
  
  with both.