OF FALSE EVIDENCE AND OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE - Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Chapter: XIV
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