Whoever causes any circumstances2008circumstance2008 to exist, or makes any false entry in any book or record ,2008or electronic record,2008 or makes any document or electronic record2008 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 circumstances,2008circumstance,2008 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”.
Section history
Section 192 — Fabricating false evidence
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Illustrations
(a) A puts jewels into a box belonging to Z with the intention that they may be found in that box and that this circumstances2008circumstance2008 may cause Z to be convicted of theft. A has fabricated false evidence.
(b) A makes a false entry in his shop-book for the purpose of using it as corroborative evidence in a court of justice. A has fabricated false evidence.
(c) A, with the intention of causing Z to be convicted of a criminal conspiracy, writes a letter in imitation of Z’s handwriting, purporting to be addressed to an accomplice in such criminal conspiracy, and puts the letter in a place which he knows that the officers of the police are likely to search. A has fabricated false evidence.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 192]