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IPC 464 refers to the offense of making a false document or electronic record with the intent to cause harm to a person or property. It is a non-bailable offense that is punishable with imprisonment for a term that may extend to two years or with a fine, or both.

Here is the exact wording of the section:

“Making a false document or electronic record.—A person is said to make a false document or false electronic record—

(a) who dishonestly or fraudulently makes, signs, seals or executes a document or electronic record or any part thereof;

(b) makes any mark denoting the execution of a document or the authenticity of the signature, with the intention of causing it to be believed that such document or part of document or electronic record was made, signed, sealed or executed or a mark denoting the execution of a document was made by a person by whom or by whose authority he knows that it was not made or given;

(c) fraudulently or dishonestly, to the prejudice of any person, causes any person to sign, seal, execute or alter a document or an electronic record or to do any act which he is lawfully not empowered to do or which he did not intend to do.”