IPC Section 192 — Fabricating false evidence

false evidence and offences against public justice

Criminal

Summary

A person fabricates false evidence if they create a situation, make a false entry in a book, record, or electronic record, or make a document or electronic recording containing a false statement. They must do this with the intention that the false information will be used as evidence in a court case, a legal proceeding before a public servant, or a proceeding before an arbitrator. The goal must be that the false evidence could cause the judge, public servant, or arbitrator to form a wrong opinion on an important point in the case.

Official Text

Whoever causes any circumstance to exist or makes any false entry in any book or record, or makes any false entry in any book or record, or electronic record or makes any document or electronic recording containing a false statement, intending that such circumstance, false entry or false statement may appear in evidence in a judicial proceeding, or in a proceeding taken by law before a public servant as such, or before an arbitrator, and that such circumstance, false entry or false statement, so appearing in evidence, may cause any person who in such proceeding is to form an opinion upon the evidence, to entertain an erroneous opinion touching any point material to the result of such proceeding is said “to fabricate false evidence”.

Related Judgments

  • BABAN SINGH AND ANR. vs JAGDISH SINGH & ORS — Supreme Court of India (1966)
  • BHIMA RAZU PRASAD vs STATE, REP. BY DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, CBI/SPE/ACU-II — Supreme Court of India (2021)
  • MAHARASHTRA STATE ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION CO. LTD. & ANR. vs DATAR SWITCHGEAR LTD. & ORS — Supreme Court of India (2010)
  • DR. S. DUTT vs STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH — Supreme Court of India (1965)
  • PHIROZE DINSHAW LAM ETC. vs UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS — Supreme Court of India (1996)

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