The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
CHAPTER XIV: OF FALSE EVIDENCE AND OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE
Section 230: Giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of capital offence.
Bare Act
(1) Whoever gives or fabricates false evidence, intending thereby to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby cause, any person to be convicted of an offence which is capital by the law for the time being in force in India shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine which may extend to fifty thousand rupees.
(2) If an innocent person be convicted and executed in consequence of false evidence referred to in sub-section (1), the person who gives such false evidence shall be punished either with death or the punishment specified in sub-section (1).
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(1) If someone gives false evidence or makes up false evidence with the intention of get
Explanation using examples
Example 1:
Ravi and Suresh have a long-standing business rivalry. Ravi, wanting to eliminate Suresh from the competition, decides to frame him for a murder. Ravi bribes a witness, Anil, to testify falsely in court that he saw Suresh co