BOOK II
Summary Offences

TITLE XIV
Perjury

142. Summary trial for perjury

(1) Whoever commits perjury shall be liable to imprisonment for six months.

(2) The provisions of sections 389 and 390 of this Code (which relate to the definition of perjury) shall apply to proceedings under this section.

(3) If, upon the hearing of any complaint for an offence under this section, it appears to the Court that such offence cannot be sufficiently punished under the provisions of this section, all further proceedings thereon as for a summary offence shall be stayed, and depositions shall be taken, and the case shall in all other respects be dealt with as if the charge had been originally one for an indictable offence.

BOOK III
Indictable Offences

PART VIII
Offences against Rights of Property

TITLE XXIII
Forgery and False Coin

302. Forgery of judicial or official document

Whoever with intent to defraud, or with intent to defeat, obstruct or pervert the course of justice or the due execution of the law, forges any judicial or official document shall be liable to imprisonment for ten years.

BOOK III
Indictable Offences

PART IX
Offences against Public Order, Health and Morality

TITLE XXVI
Perjury and Obstructions of Public Justice

Perjury and Similar Offences

359. Perjury

Whoever commits perjury shall be liable to imprisonment for ten years.

360. Perjury on trial for capital crime

Whoever commits perjury with intent to cause the conviction of any person for any crime punishable with death, shall be liable to imprisonment for fifteen years.

BOOK III
Indictable Offences

PART IX
Offences against Public Order, Health and Morality

TITLE XXVI
Perjury and Obstructions of Public Justice

362. Destruction, etc., of public register, etc.

Whoever intentionally and unlawfully falsifies, destroys, injures, removes or conceals any public register of marriages, births, baptisms, deaths or burials, or any other public register or record, or any will or any document of title to land, with intent to defeat, obstruct or pervert the course of justice, or to defraud or injure any person, shall be liable to imprisonment for ten years.

BOOK III
Indictable Offences

PART IX
Offences against Public Order, Health and Morality

TITLE XXVI
Perjury and Obstructions of Public Justice

363. Removal, etc., of document used in judicial proceeding

Whoever unlawfully, with intent to defeat, obstruct or pervert the course of justice, or to defraud or injure any person, removes, conceals, injures or alters any instrument or document used or intended to be used in any judicial proceeding, shall be liable to imprisonment for two years.

BOOK III
Indictable Offences

PART IX
Offences against Public Order, Health and Morality

TITLE XXVI
Perjury and Obstructions of Public Justice

364. Fraudulent acknowledgement of judgement, etc.

Whoever acknowledges or consents to any judgement or confession of a cause of action, or acknowledges any deed to be enrolled or registered, or enters into any recognisance or bail (whether the same to be filed or not), in the name of any other person without his consent, is guilty of felony.

365. Deceiving Court by personation, etc.

Whoever with intent to defeat, obstruct or pervert the course of justice, or to defraud or injure any person, endeavours to deceive any Court, or any judicial officer by personation, or by any false instrument, document, seal or signature, shall be liable to imprisonment for two years.

366. Deceiving public officer

Whoever, with intent to defeat, obstruct or pervert the course of justice, or the due execution of the law, or to evade the requirements of the law, or to defraud or injure any person, endeavours to deceive any public officer acting in the execution of any public office or duty, by personation or by any false instrument, document, seal or signature, or by any false statement, whether verbal or in writing, is guilty of a misdemeanour.

[See section 159.]

367. Bringing fictitious action

Whoever fraudulently brings any action against another person in a false or fictitious name, having no ground for such action, is guilty of a misdemeanour.

BOOK III
Indictable Offences

PART IX
Offences against Public Order, Health and Morality

TITLE XXVI
Perjury and Obstructions of Public Justice

368. Causing witness to disobey summons

Whoever in any manner wilfully causes any person to disobey any summons, process or order lawfully issued or made for his or her attendance as a witness in any judicial proceeding, or for the production by him or her of any written or other evidence in any judicial proceeding, is guilty of a misdemeanour.

369. Causing person to refrain from giving evidence on criminal trial

Whoever with intent to defeat, obstruct or pervert the course of justice at the trial of any person for any crime, in any manner causes any person to refrain from giving evidence at the trial, is guilty of a misdemeanour.

BOOK III
Indictable Offences

PART IX
Offences against Public Order, Health and Morality

TITLE XXVI
Perjury and Obstructions of Public Justice

373. Disturbance of Court

Whoever with force, threats or tumult, hinders, interrupts or disturbs the proceeding of any Court, or wilfully and unlawfully, with force, threats or tumult, hinders any person from entering or quitting any Court, or removes him or her therefrom, or detains him or her therein, shall be liable to imprisonment for two years.

[See section 131(b).]

374. Insulting Court

Whoever in the presence of any Court is guilty of contempt of the Court by any insulting, opprobrious or menacing acts or words, is guilty of a misdemeanour.