Section 6: Any person who, in connection with any application for employment or
consolidated text (as at 2017). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
6. Any person who, in connection with any application for employment or
promotion in the public service or with the exercise by a Commission of its
functions and duties, gives to a Commission or the Chairperson or any
member or to any person or body of persons appointed to assist a
Commission in the exercise of its functions or the discharge of its duties, any
information which to his knowledge is false or misleading by reason of the
falsity of, or the omission in, any material particular, shall commit an offence
and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 2,000 rupees and
to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years.