Substitution of new section for section 81

For section 81 of the principal Act, the following section shall be substituted, namely:–– “81. Every registering officer appointed under this Act and every person employed in his office for the purposes of this Act, who, being charged with the endorsing, copying, translating, registering or filing a true copy of any document presented or deposited under its provisions, endorses, copies, translates, registers or files a true copy of such document in a manner which he knows or believes to be incorrect, intending thereby to cause or knowing it to be likely that he may thereby cause, injury, as defined in clause (14) of section 2 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, to any person, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both.”.