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Cybercrime
  • Computer-related acts for personal or financial gain

    • • Forgery
 Special Part - Chapter Twenty-Three
 Section 269
 

Original Text

Section 269
Forgery of data intended to provide proof

(1) Whosoever for the purposes of deception in legal commerce stores or modifies data intended to provide proof in such a way that a counterfeit or falsified document would be created upon their retrieval, or uses data stored or modified in such a manner, shall be liable to imprisonment not exceeding five years or a fine.

(2) The attempt shall be punishable.

(3) Section 267(3) and (4) shall apply mutatis mutandis.

 
 
 

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