Section 124 - Public officer framing incorrect document with intent to cause injury.

Whoever, being a public officer, and being as such a public officer charged with the preparation or translation of any document, frames or translates that document in a manner which he knows and believes to be incorrect, intending thereby to cause or knowing it to be likely that he may thereby cause injury to a person, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or with fine or with both.