IPC Section 201 — Causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender

Summary

If a person knows or believes that a crime has happened, and they deliberately make any proof of that crime vanish in order to protect the person who did it from being punished, or if they give false information about the crime with that same intention, they are covered by this provision.

Official Text

Whoever, knowing or having reason to believe that an offence has been committed, causes any evidence of the commission of that offence to disappear, with the intention of screening the offender from legal punishment, or with that intention gives any information respecting the offence which he knows or believes to be false;

Related Judgments

• The State of Maharashtra vs Nazir Javed Khan & Ors — Bombay High Court (Mumbai Principal Seat) (2019)
• STATE OF BIHAR AND OTHERS ETC. vs ANIL KUMAR AND OTHERS ETC — Supreme Court of India (2017)
• SOU. VIJAYA @ BABY vs STATE OF MAHARASHTRA — Supreme Court of India (2003)
• DINESH KUMAR KALIDAS PATEL vs THE STATE OF GUJARAT — Supreme Court of India (2018)
• TEJINDER SINGH @ KAKA vs STATE OF PUNJAB — Supreme Court of India (2013)
• BUDHAN SINGH AND ORS. vs STATE OF BIHAR — Supreme Court of India (2006)

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BNS §238 — Causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender