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11. Under Section 470 of the Indian Penal Code 'false document' made wholly or in part by 'forgery' is designated a 'forged document'. 'Forgery' has been defined in Section 463 of the Indian Penal Code to mean making of a 'false document' with any of the intents mentioned therein; and 'false document' has been defined under Section 464 of the Indian Penal Code. Under the first clause of Section 464 which is relevant for our purposes, a person makes a false document if he makes or signs a document-(i) intending it to be believed that it was made or signed or executed by, or by the authority of, some person by whom, or by whose authority, he knows it was not made or signed, or (ii) with the intent that it shall be believed that it was made or signed at a time when he knows it was not so made or so signed.