Section 5: Penalty for false declaration
consolidated text (as at 1991, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
5. Penalty for false declaration
Where the declaration made under section 4 is false and the person who
made it knew it to be false, he shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 1,000 rupees and to imprisonment for
a term not exceeding one year.