CHAPTER XI OF FALSE EVIDENCE AND OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE

Section 195A: Threatening any person to give false evidence

Repealed by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.

¹[Whoever threatens another with any injury to his person, reputation or property or to the person or reputation of any one in whom that person is interested, with intent to cause that person to give false evidence shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both;

and if innocent person is convicted and sentenced in consequence of such false evidence, with death or imprisonment for more than seven years, the person who threatens shall be punished with the same punishment and sentence in the same manner and to the same extent such innocent person is punished and sentenced.]

Footnotes in the official text

1.Ins. by Act 2 of 2006, s. 2 (w.e.f. 16-4-2006).

Now in the BNS

As given in the correspondence table of the National Crime Records Bureau (Ministry of Home Affairs). Read both texts before relying on it. NCRB table

195A. Threatening any person to give false evidence.

BNS 232

Questions on this section

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1. A threatens W with injury to make W give false evidence. In consequence of W's false evidence, an innocent person is convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for more than seven years. Under Section 232(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, A shall be punished with:

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