Section 244 in THE BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023 – BNS

Fraudulent claim to property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in execution.

  1. Whoever fraudulently accepts, receives or claims any property or any interest
    therein, knowing that he has no right or rightful claim to such property or interest, or
    practises any deception touching any right to any property or any interest therein,
    intending thereby to prevent that property or interest therein from being taken as a forfeiture
    or in satisfaction of a fine, under a sentence which has been pronounced, or which he
    knows to be likely to be pronounced by a Court or other competent authority, or from
    being taken in execution of a decree or order which has been made, or which he knows to
    be likely to be made by a Court in a civil suit, shall be punished with imprisonment of
    either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.