law: Sashastra Seema Bal Act, 2007 
  38.  Falsifying official documents and false
  
  declarations.
  Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following
  
  offences, namely:.
  a.       in any
  
  report, return, list, certificate, book or other document made or signed by
  
  him, or of the contents of which it is his duty to ascertain the accuracy,
  
  knowingly makes, or is privy to the making of, any false or fraudulent
  
  statement; or
  b.      in any
  
  document of the description mentioned in clause (a ) knowingly makes, or
  
  is privy to the making of, any omission, with intent to defraud; or
  c.       knowingly
  
  and with intent to injure any person, or knowingly and with intent to defraud,
  
  suppresses, defaces, alters or makes away with any document which it is his
  
  duty to preserve or produce; or
  d.      where
  
  it is his official duty to make a declaration respecting any matter knowingly
  
  makes a false declaration; or
  e.       obtains
  
  for himself, or for any other person, any pension, allowance or other advantage
  
  or privilege by a statement which is false, and which he either knows or
  
  believes to be false or does not believe to be true, or by making or using a
  
  false entry in any book or record, or by making any document containing a false
  
  statement, or by omitting to make a true entry or document containing a true
  
  statement, shall, on conviction by a Force Court, be liable to suffer
  
  imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years or such less punishment
  
  as is in this Act mentioned.