Section 172.   Personation at elections.

Whoever at an election applies for a voting paper on votes in the
name of any other person, whether living or dead, or in a fictitious name, or who having voted once at
such election applies at the same election for a voting paper in his own name, and whoever abets,
procures or attempts to procure the voting by any person in any such way, commits the offence of
personation at an election:
Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to a person who has been authorised to vote as proxy
for an elector under any law for the time being in force in so far as he votes as a proxy for such elector.