Chapter XI · Of False Evidence and Offences Against Public Justice

Issuing or signing false certificate

Section 197 · Pakistan Penal Code

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Whoever issues or signs any certificate required by law to be given or signed, or relating to any fact of which such certificate is by law admissible in evidence, knowing or believing that such certificate is false in any material point, shall be punished in the same manner as if he gave false evidence.