CHAPTER 14 - OF FALSE EVIDENCE AND OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE

 

 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS Act)

CHAPTER 14 - OF FALSE EVIDENCE AND OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE

Section 227 - Giving false evidence.

Section 228 - Fabricating false evidence.

Section 229 - Punishment for false evidence.

Section 230 - Giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of capital offence.

Section 231 - Giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of offence punishable with imprisonment for life or imprisonment.

Section 232 - Threatening any person to give false evidence.

Section 233 - Using evidence known to be false.

Section 234 - Issuing or signing false certificate.

Section 235 - Using as true a certificate known to be false.

Section 236 - False statement made in declaration which is by law receivable as evidence.

Section 237 - Using as true such declaration knowing it to be false.

Section 238 - Causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender.

Section 239 - Intentional omission to give information of offence by person bound to inform.

Section 240 - Giving false information respecting an offence committed.

Section 241 - Destruction of document or electronic record to prevent its production as evidence.

Section 242 - False personation for purpose of act or proceeding in suit or prosecution.

Section 243 - Fraudulent removal or concealment of property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in execution.

Section 244 - Fraudulent claim to property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in execution.

Section 245 - Fraudulently suffering decree for sum not due.

Section 246 - Dishonestly making false claim in Court.

Section 247 - Fraudulently obtaining decree for sum not due.

Section 248 - False charge of offence made with intent to injure.

Section 249 - Harbouring offender.

Section 250 - Taking gift, etc., to screen an offender from punishment.

Section 251 - Offering gift or restoration of property in consideration of screening offender.

Section 252 - Taking gift to help to recover stolen property, etc.

Section 253 - Harbouring offender who has escaped from custody or whose apprehension has been ordered.

Section 254 - Penalty for harbouring robbers or dacoits.

Section 255 - Public servant disobeying direction of law with intent to save person from punishment or property from forfeiture.

Section 256 - Public servant framing incorrect record or writing with intent to save person from punishment or property from forfeiture.

Section 257 - Public servant in judicial proceeding corruptly making report, etc., contrary to law.

Section 258 - Commitment for trial or confinement by person having authority who knows that he is acting contrary to law.

Section 259 - Intentional omission to apprehend on part of public servant bound to apprehend.

Section 260 - Intentional omission to apprehend on part of public servant bound to apprehend person under sentence or lawfully committed.

Section 261 - Escape from confinement or custody negligently suffered by public servant.

Section 262 - Resistance or obstruction by a person to his lawful apprehension.

Section 263 - Resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension of another person.

Section 264 - Omission to apprehend, or sufferance of escape, on part of public servant, in cases not otherwise provided for.

Section 265 - Resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension or escape or rescue in cases not otherwise provided for.

Section 266 - Violation of condition of remission of punishment.

Section 267 - Intentional insult or interruption to public servant sitting in judicial proceeding.

Section 268 - Personation of assessor.

Section 269 - Failure by person released on bail bond or bond to appear in Court.

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