Section 124 : Punishment to one who submits false or misleading statement

If any information or statement submitted by any person to the Department is false or misleading because of submission with intention or recklessness or that information becomes misleading since such person has not mentioned information of any particular matter or thing in the statement in respect of such subject, such person shall be punished with a fine of a sum from forty thousand rupees to one hundred sixty thousand rupees or with imprisonment for a term from six months to two years or with both punishments.

Explanation: For the purposes of this Section, “any information or statement submitted to the Department” means any statement/details submitted to the Department or the officer authorized by the Department in the course of complying with the obligation under this Act in writing, and the statement/details submitted as follows:

a) Application, notice, details, complaint, statement, or other documents deposited, prepared, provided or submitted in accordance with this Act,

b) Document submitted to the Department or any officer of the Department,

c) Answers to the questions asked by the department or any officer to any person or

d) Information provided by any person, having reasonable information of the details to be provided, to the Department or any officer through any other person.