Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Section 235, BNS: Using as true a certificate known to be false

Pundora · Published 3 October 2026

Section 235 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, in the Act's own words, with the IPC provision it replaces.

What it replaces

BNS provision	IPC provision	Relation
Section 235	Section 198	corresponds

From the Bureau of Police Research and Development's official comparison summary (source below). The whole table: IPC to BNS.

The section

235. Using as true a certificate known to be false.

Whoever corruptly uses or attempts to use any such certificate as a true certificate, knowing the same to be false in any material point, shall be punished in the same manner as if he gave false evidence.

The text is India Code's consolidated text as loaded into Pundora's statute corpus on 1 September 2026. A section quoted in a draft checked by Pundora is checked against this text.

Sources

India Code: Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, section 235 (read 1 September 2026)
Bureau of Police Research and Development: comparison summary, BNS to IPC (read 1 September 2026)

The Act's own words, from India Code. If the text here differs from the Gazette, the Gazette governs; write to contact@pundora.in and it will be corrected and dated.