VidhiSangh

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Section 177: Failure to keep election accounts

Chapter IX — Of Offences Relating to Elections

177. Whoever being required by any law for the time being in force or any rule having the force of law to keep accounts of expenses incurred at or in connection with an election fails to keep such accounts shall be punished with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees.

Source: official text of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Ministry of Home Affairs).