law: Official Secrets Act, 1923 
  6. Unauthorized use of uniforms; falsification
  
  of reports, forgery, personation, and false documents 
  (1) If any person for the purpose of gaining 
  
  admission or of assisting any other person to gain admission to a prohibited 
  
  place or for any other purpose prejudicial to the safety of the State
  (a) uses or wears,
  
  without lawful authority, any naval, military, air force, police or other
  
  official uniform, or any uniform so nearly resembling the same as to be
  
  calculated to deceive, or falsely represents himself to be a person who is or
  
  has been entitled to use or wear any such uniform; or
  (b) orally, or in
  
  writing in any declaration or application, or in any document signed by him or
  
  on his behalf, knowingly makes or connives at the making of any false statement
  
  or any omission; or
  (c) forges, alters, or
  
  tampers with any passport or any naval, military, air force, police, or
  
  official pass, permit, certificate, license, or other document of a similar
  
  character (hereinafter in this section referred to as an official document) or
  
  knowingly uses or has in his possession any such forged, altered, or irregular
  
  official document; or
  (d) personates,
  
  of  falsely represents himself to be, a person holding, or in the
  
  employment of a person holding , office under Government, or to be or not to be
  
  a person to whom an official document or secret official code or pass word has
  
  been duly issued or communicated, or with intent to obtain an official
  
  document, secret official code or pass word, whether for himself or any other
  
  person, knowingly makes any false statement; or
  (e) uses, or has in
  
  his possession or under his control, without the authority of the department of
  
  the Government or the authority concerned, any die, seal or stamp of or
  
  belonging to, or used, made or provided by, any department of the Government,
  
  or by any diplomatic, naval, military, or air force authority appointed by or
  
  acting under the authority of Government, or any die, seal or stamp so nearly
  
  resembling any such die, seal or stamp as to be calculated to deceive, or
  
  counterfeits any such die, seal or stamp, or knowingly uses, or has in his
  
  possession or under his control, any such counterfeited die, seal or stamp;
  he shall be guilty of
  
  an offence under this section.
  (2) If any person for any purpose prejudicial
  
  to the safety of the State-
  (a) retains any
  
  official document, whether or not completed or issued for use, when he has no
  
  right to retain it, or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it, or
  
  willfully fails to comply with any direction issued by any department of the
  
  Government or any person authorized by such department with regard to the
  
  return or disposal thereof; or
  (b) allows any other
  
  person to have possession of any official document issued for his use alone, or
  
  communicates any secret official code or pass word so issued, or, without
  
  lawful authority or excuse, has in his possession any official document or
  
  secret official code or pass word issued for the use of some person other than
  
  himself, or, on obtaining possession of any official document by finding or
  
  otherwise, willfully fails to restore it to the person or authority by whom or
  
  for whose use it was issued, or to a police officer; or
  (c) without lawful
  
  authority or excuse, manufactures or sells, or has in his possession for sale,
  
  any such die, seal or stamp as aforesaid;
  he shall be guilty of an offence under this
  
  section.
  (3) A person guilty of an offence under this
  
  section shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to
  
  15[three years], or with fine, or with both.
  (4) The provisions of sub-section (2) of
  
  section 3 shall apply, for the purpose of proving a purpose prejudicial to the
  
  safety of the State, to any prosecution for an offence under this section
  
  relating to the naval, military or air force affairs of Government, or to any
  
  secret official code in like manner as they apply, for the purpose of proving a
  
  purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State, to prosecutions
  
  for offences punishable under that section 16[***].