IPC Chapter 11: False Evidence and Offences against Public Justice

Repealed on 1 July 2024 and replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS).

1. Section 191. Giving false evidence
2. Section 192. Fabricating false evidence
3. Section 193. Punishment for false evidence
4. Section 194. Giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of capital offence
5. Section 195. Giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of offence punishable with imprisonment for life or imprisonment
6. Section 195A. Threatening any person to give false evidence
7. Section 196. Using evidence known to be false
8. Section 197. Issuing or signing false certificate
9. Section 198. Using as true a certificate known to be false
10. Section 199. False statement made in declaration which is by law receivable as evidence
11. Section 200. Using as true such declaration knowing it to be false
12. Section 201. Causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender
13. Section 202. Intentional omission to give information of offence by person bound to inform
14. Section 203. Giving false information respecting an offence committed
15. Section 204. Destruction of document or electronic record to prevent its production as sevidence
16. Section 205. False personation for purpose of act or proceeding in suit or prosecution
17. Section 206. Fraudulent removal or concealment of property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in execution
18. Section 207. Fraudulent claim to property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in execution
19. Section 208. Fraudulently suffering decree for sum not due
20. Section 209. Dishonestly making false claim in Court
21. Section 210. Fraudulently obtaining decree for sum not due
22. Section 211. False charge of offence made with intent to injure
23. Section 212. Harbouring offender
24. Section 213. Taking gift, etc., to screen an offender from punishment
25. Section 214. Offering gift or restoration of property in consideration of screening offender
26. Section 215. Taking gift to help to recover stolen property, etc
27. Section 216. Harbouring offender who has escaped from custody or whose apprehension has been ordered
28. Section 216A. Penalty for harbouring robbers or dacoits
29. Section 216B. Definition of “harbour” in sections 212, 216 and 216A
30. Section 217. Public servant disobeying direction of law with intent to save person from punishment or property from forfeiture
31. Section 218. Public servant framing incorrect record or writing with intent to save person from punishment or property from forfeiture
32. Section 219. Public servant in judicial proceeding corruptly making report, etc., contrary to law
33. Section 220. Commitment for trial or confinement by person having authority who knows that he is acting contrary to law
34. Section 221. Intentional omission to apprehend on the part of public servant bound to apprehend
35. Section 222. Intentional omission to apprehend on the part of public servant bound to apprehend person under sentence or lawfully committed
36. Section 223. Escape from confinement or custody negligently suffered by public servant
37. Section 224. Resistance or obstruction by a person to his lawful apprehension
38. Section 225. Resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension of another person
39. Section 225A. Omission to apprehend, or sufferance of escape, on part of public servant, in cases not otherwise, provided for
40. Section 225B. Resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension, or escape or rescue in cases not otherwise provided for
41. Section 226. Unlawful return from transportation
42. Section 227. Violation of condition of remission of punishment
43. Section 228. Intentional insult or interruption to public servant sitting in judicial proceeding
44. Section 228A. Disclosure of identity of the victim of certain offences etc
45. Section 229. Personation of a juror or assessor
46. Section 229A. Failure by person released on bail or bond to appear in Court