Offences Relating to Documents
Forging a document/record purporting to be a Court record, a government-issued identity document (explicitly including voter ID and Aadhaar Card), a birth/marriage/burial register, another public servant's register, an official certificate, or a legal authority/power-of-attorney document, is punished with up to 7 years' imprisonment plus fine.
This is a critical, explicitly updated provision - it directly names Aadhaar Card and voter ID forgery as covered offences, reflecting the central role these government identity documents now play in Indian life and the corresponding seriousness of forging them.
This is directly relevant to identity-fraud scams: forging a fake Aadhaar Card or voter ID - a common tactic used to open fraudulent bank accounts or SIM cards for scam operations - is explicitly and specifically criminalised under this section.