False Evidence and Offences against public justice

In a Mumbai road-accident case, a witness swears that the truck driver was drunk, though he was not even on the road. Another person quietly hides the victim's mobile phone, which held the only video. A third shelters the accused in his village for a month. None of the three committed the accident, yet each has attacked the court's ability to find the truth. Chapter XIV of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita is the law of those who corrupt justice from outside the dock.

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Chapter XIV of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 (ss.227–269) punishes giving or fabricating false evidence, using it, false certificates and declarations, destroying evidence, false charges, screening or harbouring offenders, corrupt acts by public servants in judicial work, escapes, and failure to appear on bail.

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