BNS Section 337: Forgery of record of Court or of public register, etc.

Whoever forges a document or an electronic record, purporting to be a record or proceeding of or in a Court or an identity document issued by Government including voter identity card or Aadhaar Card, or a register of birth, marriage or burial, or a register kept by a public servant as such, or a certificate or document purporting to be made by a public servant in his official capacity, or an authority to institute or defend a suit, or to take any proceedings therein, or to confess judgment, or a power of attorney, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.

Explanation: For the purposes of this section, "register" includes any list, data or record of any entries maintained in the electronic form as defined in clause (r) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000).

Simplified Explanation

Section 337 of the BNS, 2023 states that whoever forges any documents/ electronic records, which relates to record of the proceedings of court, identity documents such as Aadhaar Card, birth/burial certificate, marriage certificate, register of public servants, document having the authority to start or defend a lawsuit or a power of attorney, will be punished with imprisonment up to seven years with fine.

Punishment 

Imprisonment up to 7 years with Fine.