BNS · Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Section 216 — False statement on oath or affirmation to public servant or person authorised to administer an oath or affirmation.
Replaces IPC Section 181.
Whoever, being legally bound by an oath or affirmation to state the truth on any subject to any public servant or other person authorised by law to administer such oath or affirmation, makes, to such public servant or other person as aforesaid, touching that subject, any statement which is false, and which he either knows or believes to be false or does not believe to be true, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine
Nearby sections
- 213 Refusing oath or affirmation when duly required by public servant to make it.
- 214 Refusing to answer public servant authorised to question.
- 215 Refusing to sign statement.
- 217 False information, with intent to cause public servant to use his lawful power to injury of another person.
- 218 Resistance to taking of property by lawful authority of a public servant.
- 219 Obstructing sale of property offered for sale by authority of public servant.
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