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IPC Section 206 - Fraudulent removal or concealment of property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in
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Simple language explanation
IPC Section 206 deals with fraudulent removal or concealment of property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in.
Full official legal text
206. Fraudulent removal or concealment of property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in
execution.--Whoever fraudulently removes, conceals, transfers or delivers to any person any property or
any interest therein, intending thereby to prevent that property or interest therein from being taken as a
forfeiture or in satisfaction of a fine, under a sentence which has been pronounced, or which he knows to
be likely to be pronounced, by a Court of Justice or ot her competent authority, or from being taken in
execution of a decree or order which has been made, or which he knows to be likely to be made by a
Court of Justice in a civil suit, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which
may extend to two years or with fine, or with both.
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