Whoever dishonestly or fraudulently removes, conceals, or delivers to any person, or transfers or causes to be transferred to any person, without adequate consideration, any property, intending thereby to prevent, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby prevent, the distribution of that property according to law among his creditors or the creditors of any other person, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 2200832008 years or with fine, or with both.
Section history
Section 421 — Dishonest or fraudulent removal or concealment of property to prevent distribution among creditors
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 421 — Original text to 30 November 2008superseded
Section 421 — From 30 November 2008 (current)rewritten by the Revised Edition
Whoever dishonestly or fraudulently removes, conceals, or delivers to any person, or transfers or causes to be transferred to any person, without adequate consideration, any property, intending thereby to prevent, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby prevent, the distribution of that property according to law among his creditors or the creditors of any other person, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 3 years, or with fine, or with both.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 421]