Section 171. Wearing garb or carrying token used by public servant with fraudulent intent

171. Wearing garb or carrying token used by public servant with fraudulent intent . — Whoever, not belonging to a certain class of public servants, wears any garb or carries any token resembling any garb or token used by that class of public servants, with the intention that it may be believed, or with the knowledge that it is likely to be believed, that he belongs to that class of public servants, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees, or with both. 1[CHAPTER IXA OF OFFENCES RELATING TO ELECTIONS 171A. "Candidate", "Electoral right" defined . — For the purposes of this Chapter — 2[(a) "candidate" means a person who has been nominated as a candidate at any election;] (b) "electoral right" means the right of a person to stand, or not to stand as, or to withdraw from being, a candidate or to vote or refrain from voting at an election.