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

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Statutory text

231. Whoever gives or fabricates false evidence intending thereby to
cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby cause, any person to
be convicted of an offence which by the law for the time being in force in
India  is  not  capital,  but  punishable  with  imprisonment  for  life,  or
imprisonment for a term of seven years or upwards, shall be punished as a
person convicted of that offence would be liable to be punished.
Illustration.
A gives false evidence before a Court, intending thereby to cause Z
to be convicted of a dacoity. The punishment of dacoity is imprisonment for
life, or rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years,
with  or  without  fine.  A,  therefore,  is  liable  to  imprisonment  for  life  or
imprisonment, with or without fine.
Threatening any person to give false evidence.
232.(1)  Whoever  threatens  another  with  any  injury  to  his  person,
reputation or property or to the person or reputation of any one in whom
that  person  is  interested,  with  intent  to  cause  that  person  to  give  false
evidence  shall  be  punished  with  imprisonment  of  either  description  for  a
term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both.
(2) If innocent person is convicted and sentenced in consequence of
false evidence referred to in sub-section (1), with death or imprisonment
for  more  than  seven  years,  the  person  who  threatens  shall  be  punished
with the same punishment and sentence in the same manner and to the
same extent such innocent person is punished and sentenced.
Using evidence known to be false.

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