Threatening any person to give false evidence
Chapter 14: False evidence and offences against public justice
(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.
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 45 of 2023). As printed in the Gazette on 25 December 2023. Later amendments, if any, are not included.
Related sections
- 229Punishment for false evidenceIPC 193
- 230Giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of capital offenceIPC 194
- 231Giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of offence punishable with imprisonment for life or imprisonmentIPC 195
- 233Using evidence known to be falseIPC 196
- 234Issuing or signing false certificateIPC 197
- 235Using as true a certificate known to be falseIPC 198