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Section 348 in The Indian Penal Code, 1860 [Entire Act]
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Section 325 in The Indian Penal Code, 1860 [Entire Act]
The Indian Penal Code, 1860
Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code, 1860 [Entire Act]
Queen-Empress vs Abdul Kadir And Anr. on 15 July, 1886
The first paragraph of s. 201 lays down the essential
ingredients of the offence under s. 201. It must be proved
first that an offence has been committed. See Palvinder
Kaur v. State of Punjab(1) and Empress of India v. Abdul
Kadir(2). Secondly, the accused must know or have reason to
believe that the offence has been committed. Thirdly, the
accused must either cause any evidence of the commission of
that offence to disappear or give any information respecting
the offence which he knows or believes to be false.
Fourthly the accused must have acted with the intention of
screening the offender from legal punishment. By the
second, third and fourth paragraphs, the measure of the
punishment is made to depend upon the gravity of the
offence. The word " offence" wherever used in the first,
second, third and fourth paragraphs means some real offence,
which, in fact, has been committed and not some offence
which the accused imagines has been committed. The
punishment depends upon the gravity of the offence which was
committed and which the accused knew or had reason to
believe to have been committed. If an accused on seeing
blood marks on the ground-made as a result of an offence
punishable under s. 323, erases the blood marks with the
intention
(1) [1953] S.C.R. 94, 102.