Section 103: Impersonating living or dead individual
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103. Impersonating living or dead individual
Any person who falsely and deceitfully represents himself to be some
other person, living or dead, with intent to obtain fraudulently any property,
shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to penal servitude
for a term not exceeding 10 years.
[S. 103 reprinted by Reprint 2 of 1983; amended by s. 8 of Act 36 of 2008 w.e.f.
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- What is the penalty for pretending to be someone else, living or dead, to fraudulently get property?