464 – Making a false document .

464 – Making a false document .— A person is said to make a false document or false electronic record— First.—Who dishonestly or fraudulently—

(a) makes, signs, seals or executes a document or part of a document;

(b) makes or transmits any electronic record or part of any electronic record;

(c) affixes any electronic signature on any electronic record;

(d) makes any mark denoting the execution of a document or the authenticity of the electronic signature,with the intention of causing it to be believed that such document or part of document, electronic record or 2 [electronic signature] was made, signed, sealed, executed, transmitted or affixed by or by the authority of a person by whom or by whose authority he knows that it was not made, singed, sealed, executed or affixed;

or Secondly.—Who without lawful authority, dishonestly or fraudulently, by cancellation or otherwise, alters a document or an electronic record in any material part thereof, after it has been made, executed or affixed with electronic signature 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 or an electronic record or to affix his electronic signature on any electronic record knowing that such person by reason of unsoundness of mind or intoxication cannot, or that by reason of deception practised upon him, he does not know the contents of the document or electronic record or the nature of the alteration. 

Explanation 1.—A man’s signature of his own name
may amount to forgery.
Explanation 2.—The making of a false document in
the name of a fictitious person, intending it to be
believed that the document was made by a real
person, or in the name of a deceased person,
intending it to be believed that the document was
made by the person in his lifetime, may amount to
forgery.
Explanation 3.—For the purposes of this section,
the expression “affixing electronic signature” shall
have the meaning assigned to it in clause (d) of
sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Information
Technology Act, 2000.