IPC Section 226: Unlawful return from transportation
Indian Penal Code, 1860 · Chapter 11: False Evidence and Offences against Public Justice
Repealed on 1 July 2024 and replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS).
[Rep. by the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, 1995 (26 of 1995), sec. 117 and Sch. (w.e.f. 1.1.1956).]
Bare act text for reference, current to 30 June 2024. It is not legal advice; check the official gazette for authoritative text.
Other sections in this chapter
- 191. Giving false evidence
- 192. Fabricating false evidence
- 193. Punishment for false evidence
- 194. Giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of capital offence
- 195. Giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of offence punishable with imprisonment for life or imprisonment
- 195A. Threatening any person to give false evidence
- 196. Using evidence known to be false
- 197. Issuing or signing false certificate
- 198. Using as true a certificate known to be false
- 199. False statement made in declaration which is by law receivable as evidence
- 200. Using as true such declaration knowing it to be false
- 201. Causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender
- 202. Intentional omission to give information of offence by person bound to inform
- 203. Giving false information respecting an offence committed
- 204. Destruction of document or electronic record to prevent its production as sevidence
- 205. False personation for purpose of act or proceeding in suit or prosecution
- 206. Fraudulent removal or concealment of property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in execution
- 207. Fraudulent claim to property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in execution
- 208. Fraudulently suffering decree for sum not due
- 209. Dishonestly making false claim in Court
- 210. Fraudulently obtaining decree for sum not due
- 211. False charge of offence made with intent to injure
- 212. Harbouring offender
- 213. Taking gift, etc., to screen an offender from punishment
- 214. Offering gift or restoration of property in consideration of screening offender
- 215. Taking gift to help to recover stolen property, etc
- 216. Harbouring offender who has escaped from custody or whose apprehension has been ordered
- 216A. Penalty for harbouring robbers or dacoits
- 216B. Definition of “harbour” in sections 212, 216 and 216A
- 217. Public servant disobeying direction of law with intent to save person from punishment or property from forfeiture
- 218. Public servant framing incorrect record or writing with intent to save person from punishment or property from forfeiture
- 219. Public servant in judicial proceeding corruptly making report, etc., contrary to law
- 220. Commitment for trial or confinement by person having authority who knows that he is acting contrary to law
- 221. Intentional omission to apprehend on the part of public servant bound to apprehend
- 222. Intentional omission to apprehend on the part of public servant bound to apprehend person under sentence or lawfully committed
- 223. Escape from confinement or custody negligently suffered by public servant
- 224. Resistance or obstruction by a person to his lawful apprehension
- 225. Resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension of another person
- 225A. Omission to apprehend, or sufferance of escape, on part of public servant, in cases not otherwise, provided for
- 225B. Resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension, or escape or rescue in cases not otherwise provided for
- 227. Violation of condition of remission of punishment
- 228. Intentional insult or interruption to public servant sitting in judicial proceeding
- 228A. Disclosure of identity of the victim of certain offences etc
- 229. Personation of a juror or assessor
- 229A. Failure by person released on bail or bond to appear in Court