65. Offences refating to Tegisters
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Any person who—
fraudulently issues or makes or fraudulently procures the issue or making of any extract or other document, or effects any registration, or any erasure or alteration in any register or other document maintained under this Act or any extract thereof ; or
fraudulently removes from a registry any register maintained under this Act or any part of any register or any instrument filed in such registry; or
instrument
“instrument” means a document having the effect of conveying title to and interest in any land parcel in the prescribed form.
fraudulently causes any defacement, obliteration, mutilation or unauthorised entry or alteration to be made on or in any such register or instrument filed of record, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction after summary trial by a Magistrate, to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding three years or to a fine not exceeding Rupees Fifteen Thousand or to both such imprisonment and fine.