Whoever, by personation or otherwise, shall intentionally cause, or
knowingly suffer himself to be returned, empanelled or sworn as an assessor in any case in which he
knows that he is not entitled by law to be so returned, empanelled or sworn, or knowing himself to have
been so returned, empanelled or sworn contrary to law, shall voluntarily serve as such assessor, shall be
punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine,
or with both<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BNS Section 268.\u00a0\u00a0 Personation of assessor. Whoever, by personation or otherwise, shall intentionally cause, orknowingly suffer himself to be returned, empanelled or sworn as an assessor in any case in which heknows that he is not entitled by law to be so returned, empanelled or sworn, or knowing himself to havebeen so returned, empanelled or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/expertvakil.com\/indiankanoon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/the-bharatiya-nyaya-sanhita-bns-section-268.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"BNS Section 268","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[110,119,104,109,120,105,118,108,111,112,117,121,122,113,114,115],"class_list":["post-2816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bharatiya-nyaya-sanhita-bns","tag-bharatiya-nyaya-sanhita","tag-bharatiya-nyaya-sanhita-in-english","tag-bns","tag-bns-2023","tag-bns-english","tag-bns-section","tag-bns-section-in-english","tag-bns-sections-list","tag-expert-vakil","tag-expertvakil","tag-expertvakil-bns","tag-indian-kanoon","tag-indiankanoon","tag-ishan-tathagat","tag-ishantathagat","tag-new-ipc"],"yoast_head":"\n