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BNS: Chapter 14: Of False Evidence and Offences Against Public Justice

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  1. Section 227. Giving false evidence
  2. Section 228. Fabricating false evidence
  3. Section 229. Punishment for false evidence
  4. Section 230. Giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of capital offence
  5. Section 231. Giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of offence punishable with imprisonment for life or imprisonment
  6. Section 232. Threatening any person to give false evidence
  7. Section 233. Using evidence known to be false
  8. Section 234. Issuing or signing a false certificate
  9. Section 235. Using as true a certificate known to be false
  10. Section 236. False statement made in a declaration which is by law receivable as evidence
  11. Section 237. Using as true such a declaration knowing it to be false
  12. Section 238. Causing disappearance of evidence of an offence, or giving false information to screen an offender
  13. Section 239. Intentional omission to give information of an offence by a person bound to inform
  14. Section 240. Giving false information respecting an offence committed
  15. Section 241. Destruction of a document or electronic record to prevent its production as evidence
  16. Section 242. False personation for the purpose of an act or proceeding in a suit or prosecution
  17. Section 243. Fraudulent removal or concealment of property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in execution
  18. Section 244. Fraudulent claim to property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in execution
  19. Section 245. Fraudulently suffering a decree for a sum not due
  20. Section 246. Dishonestly making a false claim in Court
  21. Section 247. Fraudulently obtaining a decree for a sum not due
  22. Section 248. False charge of an offence made with intent to injure
  23. Section 249. Harbouring an offender
  24. Section 250. Taking a gift, etc., to screen an offender from punishment
  25. Section 251. Offering a gift or restoration of property in consideration of screening an offender
  26. Section 252. Taking a gift to help to recover stolen property, etc
  27. Section 253. Harbouring an offender who has escaped from custody or whose apprehension has been ordered
  28. Section 254. Penalty for harbouring robbers or dacoits
  29. Section 255. Public servant disobeying direction of law with intent to save a person from punishment or property from forfeiture
  30. Section 256. Public servant framing an incorrect record or writing with intent to save a person from punishment or property from forfeiture
  31. Section 257. Public servant in judicial proceeding corruptly making a report, etc., contrary to law
  32. Section 258. Commitment for trial or confinement by a person having authority who knows that he is acting contrary to law
  33. Section 259. Intentional omission to apprehend on the part of a public servant bound to apprehend
  34. Section 260. Intentional omission to apprehend on the part of a public servant bound to apprehend a person under sentence or lawfully committed
  35. Section 261. Escape from confinement or custody negligently suffered by a public servant
  36. Section 262. Resistance or obstruction by a person to his lawful apprehension
  37. Section 263. Resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension of another person
  38. Section 264. Omission to apprehend, or sufferance of escape, on the part of a public servant, in cases not otherwise provided for
  39. Section 265. Resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension or escape or rescue in cases not otherwise provided for
  40. Section 266. Violation of the condition of remission of punishment
  41. Section 267. Intentional insult or interruption to a public servant sitting in a judicial proceeding
  42. Section 268. Personation of an assessor
  43. Section 269. Failure by a person released on a bail bond or bond to appear in Court

Official reference: Ministry of Home Affairs: Gazette text, 25 December 2023 — source link checked: 2 October 2026.Recorded edition / snapshot date: 2024-07-01.Mobile-app reference import; the recorded snapshot date is not a fresh legal-currency guarantee. The linked government text is an independent authoritative reference, not certification that this website reproduces the same edition. The source link was checked, not every provision or subsequent amendment. Check commencement notifications, savings and jurisdiction-specific variations separately.