81: Penalty for incorrectly endorsing, copying, translating or registering documents with intent to injure

Penalty for incorrectly endorsing, copying, translating or registering documents with intent to injure.— Every registering officer appointed under this Act and every person employed in his office for the purposes of this Act, who, being charged with the endorsing, copying translating or registering of any document presented or deposited under its provisions, endorses, copies, translates or registers such document in a manner which he knows or believes to be incorrect, intending thereby to cause or knowing it to be likely that he may thereby cause, injury, as defined in the Pakistan Penal Code (XLV of 1860), to any person, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both.

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