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“fake – ►adj. not genuine, ►n. a person or thing this is not genuine, ► v.1. forge or counterfeit (something). ­■pretend to feel or suffer from (an emotion or illness).
2.(fake someone out) N. Amer, informal trick or deceive someone.

­DERIVATIVES faker n. fakery n.”

30. In P. Ramanatha Aiyar’s Advanced Law Lexicon, (Volume 2, 5th Edition, 2017), the entry relating to the word “fake” simply directs the reader to the entry relating to the word “forgery”. Therefore, one has to go to the entry relating to the word “forgery” to understand the meaning of the word “fake”. The entry relating to the word “forgery” is quite long and it begins with a reference first to Section 463 of the IPC, 1860 which defines “forgery”. The entire Entry reads as follows:­ “Forgery. “Forgery” whoever makes any false document or false electronic record, or part of a document or electronic record, with intent to cause damage or injury, to the public or to any person, or to support any claim or title, or to cause any person to part with property, or to enter into any express or implied contract, or with intent to commit fraud or that fraud may be committed commits forgery. [IPC (45 of 1860), S. 463] “A man’s signature of his own name may amount to forgery.” [IPC (45 of 1860), S. 464, Expln. 1] “While it is true that there is a distinction between fraud and forgery, and forgery contains some elements that are not included in fraud, forgeries are a species of fraud. In essence, the crime of forgery involves the making, altering, or completing of an instrument by someone other than the ostensible maker or drawer or an agent of the ostensible maker or drawer.” 37 CJS Forgery S. 2, at 66 (1997). The fraudulent making or altering of an instrument that ap­ parently creates or alters a legal liability of another. The offence of making a false instrument so that it can be accepted as genuine.