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Penal Code, 1860 (Act No. XLV of 1860).
Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation Order, 1973 (P.O. No. 7 of 1973);
(g) Bangladesh Krishi Bank established under the Bangladesh Krishi Bank Order,
1973 (P.O. No. 27 of 1973);
(h) Investment Corporation of Bangladesh established under the Investment
Corporation of Bangladesh Ordinance, 1976 (XL of 1976);
(i) Grameen Bank established under the Grameen Bank Ordinance, 1983 (XLVI of
1983);
(j) Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank established under the Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan
Bank Ordinance, 1986 (LVIII of 1986);
(k) a bank conducted in accordance with Islamic shariah.]
CHAPTER XVIII
OF OFFENCES RELATING TO DOCUMENTS AND TO TRADE OR PROPERTY
MARKS
Forgery
463. Whoever makes any false document or part of a document, with intent to
cause damage or injury, to the public or to any person, or to support any claim
or title, or to cause any person to part with property, or to enter into any
express or implied contract, or with intend to commit fraud or that fraud may be
committed, commits forgery.
Making a false
document
464. A person is said to make a false document
Firstly.Who dishonesty or fraudulently makes, signs, seals or executes a
document or part of a document, or makes any mark denoting the execution of a
document, with the intention of causing it to be believed that such document or
part of a document was made, signed, sealed or executed by or by the authority
of a person by whom or by whose authority he knows that it was not made,
signed, sealed or executed, or at a time at which he knows that it was not
made, signed, sealed or executed; or
Secondly.Who, without lawful authority, dishonestly or fraudulently, by
cancellation or otherwise, alters a document in any material part thereof, after it
has been made or executed either by himself or by any other person, whether
such person be living or dead at the time of such alteration; or
Thirdly.Who dishonestly or fraudulently causes any person to sign, seal, execute
or alter a document, knowing that such person by reason of unsoundness of mind
or intoxication cannot, or that by reason of deception practiced upon him he does
not know the contents of the document or the nature of the alteration.
Illustrations
(a) A has a letter of credit upon B for taka 10,000, written by Z. A, in order to
defraud B, adds a cipher to the 10,000 and makes the sum 1,00,000, intending
that it may be believed by B that Z so wrote the letter. A has committed forgery.
(b) A, without Z's authority, affixes Z's seal to a document purporting to be a
conveyance of an estate from Z to A, with the intention of selling the estate to B
and thereby of obtaining from B the purchasemoney. A has committed forgery.
(c) A picks up a cheque on a banker signed by B, payable to bearer, but without
any sum having been inserted in the cheque. A fraudulently fills up the cheque
by inserting the sum of ten thousand taka. A commits forgery.
(d) A leaves with B, his agent, a cheque on a banker, signed by A, without
inserting the sum payable and authorizes B to fill up the cheque by inserting a
sum not exceeding ten thousand taka for the purpose of making certain
payments. B fraudulently fills up the cheque by inserting the sum of twenty
thousand taka. B commits forgery.
(e) A draws a bill of exchange on himself in the name of B without B's authority,
intending to discount it as a genuine bill with a banker and intending to take up
the bill on its maturity. Here, as A draws the bill with intent to deceive the
banker by leading him to suppose that he had the security of B, and thereby to
discount the bill, A is guilty of forgery.
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