State Act

The Goa Succession, Special Notaries and Inventory Proceeding Act, 2012

361. Penalty for incorrectly recording, endorsing, copying, and translating documents with intent to injure.— (1) Every Special Notary appointed under this Act and every person employed in his office for the purposes of this Act, who being charged with drawing, endorsing, copying, or translating a document, does so 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 the 25[ the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Central Act No. 45 of 2023)], to any person, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years and shall also be liable to fine. (2) Every Special Notary appointed under this Act and every person employed in his office for the purposes of this Act, who has access to the documents, books and registers maintained in his office, remove, mutilate, destroys or make any alteration thereto intending thereby to cause or knowing it to be likely that he may thereby cause injury as defined in the 26[ the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Central Act No. 45 of 2023)], to any person shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years and shall also be liable to fine.