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Falsely representing oneself as an income-tax officer to deceive a person into handing over valuables is cheating by personation. It is the specific offence identified by…

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'A' is not a servant in Income-tax department but showing himself as Income-tax officer putting raid in the business centre of 'B' and gets valuable articles thus 'A' commits:

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Falsely representing oneself as an income-tax officer to deceive a person into handing over valuables is cheating by personation. It is the specific offence identified by section 416. Additional personating-a-public-servant or robbery charges would require their own elements and evidence.

Current law: BNS section 319 defines/punishes cheating by personation; the corresponding public-servant impersonation provision is section 204.

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