Section 201 Ipc

Section 201 in the indian penal code 201.

Section 201 ipc. The section makes causing disappearance of evidence of an offence or giving false information to screen an offender of an offence. Conviction under section 201 of ipc can be maintained independently the bench observed that section 201 of ipc can be independently laid and conviction maintained also in case the prosecution is able to establish that an offence had been committed the person charged with the offence had the knowledge or the reason to believe that the offence had been committed the said person has caused disappearance of evidence and such act of disappearance has been done with the intention of screening. In a 2 decade old matter relating to culpability of the accused under section 201 ipc pertaining to disappearance of evidence in the case of the murder of her husband the bench of n.

Pant jj gave a split decision and placed the matter before the chief justice of india for referring it to a larger bench. Causing disappearance of evidence of offence or giving false information to screen offender. Legal provisions of section 201 of indian penal code 1860.