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Official Secrets Act, 1923 (Act No. XIX of 1923).
possession or control when he has no right to retain it, or when it is
contrary to his duty to retain it, or wilfully fails to comply with all
directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or
disposal thereof; or
(d) fails to take reasonable care of, or so conducts himself as to
endanger the safety of, the sketch, plan, model, article, note,
document, secret official code or pass word or information;
he shall be guilty of an offence under this section.
(2) If any person voluntarily receives any secret official code or pass
word or any sketch, plan, model, article, note, document or information
knowing or having reasonable ground to believe, at the time when he
receives it, that the code, pass word, sketch, plan, model, article, note,
document or information is communicated in contravention of this Act,
he shall be guilty of an offence under this section.
(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be
punishable,
(a) where the offence committed is a contravention of clause (a) of
subsection (1) and intended or calculated to be, directly or indirectly,
in the interest or for the benefit of a foreign power, or is in relation to
any work of defence, arsenal, naval, military or air force establishment
or station mine, mine field, factory, dockyard, camp, ship or aircraft or
otherwise in relation to the naval, military or air force affairs of
Bangladesh or in relation to any secret official code, with death, or with
imprisonment of a term which may extend to fourteen years; and
(b) in any other case, with imprisonment for a term which may extend
to two years, or with fine, or with both.
Unauthorised use
of uniforms;
falsification of
reports, forgery,
personation, and
false documents
6.(1) If any person for the purpose of gaining admission or of assisting
any other person to gain admission to a prohibited place or for any
other purpose prejudicial to the safety of the State
(a) uses or wears, without lawful authority, any naval, military, air
force, police or other official uniform, or any uniform so nearly
resembling the same as to be calculated to deceive, or falsely
represents himself to be a person who is or has been entitled to use
or wear any such uniform; or
(b) orally, or in writing in any declaration or application, or in any
document signed by him or on his behalf, knowingly makes or connives
at the making of any false statement or any omission; or
(c) forges, alters, or tampers with any passport or any naval, military,
air force, police, or official pass, permit, certificate, licence, or other
document of a
similar character (hereinafter in this section referred to as an official
document) or knowingly uses or has in his possession any such forged,
altered, or irregular official document; or
(d) personates, or falsely represents himself to be, a person holding, or
in the employment of a person holding, office under Government, or to
be or not to be a person to whom an official document or secret
official code or pass word has been duly issued or communicated, or
with intent to obtain an official document, secret official code or pass
word, whether for himself or any other person, knowingly makes any
false statement; or
(e) uses, or has in his possession or under his control, without the
authority of the department of the Government of the authority
concerned, any die, seal or stamp of or belonging to, or used, made or
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