IPC Section 195 — Giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of an offence punishable with imprisonment for life or with imprisonment for 7 Years or upwards

Summary

Whoever creates or presents false evidence with the intention or knowledge that it could lead to someone being convicted of a non-capital offence that carries a punishment of life imprisonment or at least seven years in prison, will face the same punishment as that offence would carry.

Official Text

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 by the law for the time being in force in India is not capital, but punishable with imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for a term of seven years or upwards, shall be punished as a person convicted of that offence would be liable to be punished.

Related Judgments

• RAM DHAN v. STATE OF U.P. AND ANR. 1063 — Supreme Court of India (2012)
• HP.L. CHEMICALS LTD v. COMMR. OF CENTRAL EXCISE, CHANDIGARH — Supreme Court of India (S)
• CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION v. K.M. SHARAN — Supreme Court of India (2008)
• KAPIL COREPACKS PVT. LTD v. HARBANS LAL — Supreme Court of India (2010)
• S.C.R. 711 STATE OF BIHAR AND OTHERS ETC v. ANIL KUMAR AND OTHERS ETC — Supreme Court of India (2017)
• SC (2024) Vol.8 p.332 — Supreme Court of India (2024)
• M/S BANDEKAR BROTHERS PVT. LTD. & ANR v. PRASAD VASSUDEV KENI, ETC. ETC — Supreme Court of India (2020)
• F-GI V.L. TRESA v. STATE OF KERA LA — Supreme Court of India (2001)

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BNS §231 — Giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of offence punishable with imprisonment for life or imprisonment