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62. False Evidence

A person is said to give false evidence when :

In any investigation or any matter carried out under the authority of Shari ’ah or Law or by a person authorized to carry out such investigation or matter under the Shari ’ah or Law to make an untrue declaration upon any such subject or to make a declaration hoping that it is or ought to be true or making a declaration not knowing or not confirming the true or untrue nature of that subject matter.

Any document, thing, gesture, writing, deletion or any other thing done which in an investigation or matter conducted under the authority of the Law or by a person authorized by such Shari ’ah or Law used or is likely to be used in any such proceeding and any person involved in such investigation or matter, any responsible official or judge makes a false opinion about the matter, or forms an erroneous understanding or opinion or decides the matter based on such erroneous opinion, and if such act could be reasonably construed to be likely under those circumstances giving of such declaration shall also be considered as giving false evidence. And where a person signs a document as a witness while there is an untrue statement in that document and signs the document as a true document and depending upon how such document maybe used subsequently the person who signs that document can be considered to have given false evidence. This shall be determined by the judge.

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63. Penalty for giving false evidence

Whoever gives false evidence shall be punished with imprisonment not exceeding 1 year or subjected to fine not exceeding Mrf. 1,000.00 or exile or house detention not exceeding 2 years.

CHAPTER 530. INTERFERENCE WITH GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS AND

ESCAPE
Section 530 – Obstructing Justice

(a) Offense Defined. A person commits an offense if, with the purpose

of preventing the apprehension of or to obstruct the prosecution or defense of a

person, he knowingly:

(1) warns that person of impending discovery or apprehension; or

(2) destroys, alters, conceals, or disguises physical evidence,

plants false evidence, furnishes false information, regardless of its

admissibility in evidence; or

(3) induces a witness having knowledge material to the subject at

issue to leave the State or to conceal himself; or

(4) deters a witness from testifying freely, fully, or truthfully; or

(5) possessing knowledge material to the subject at issue, he

leaves the State or conceals himself.

(6) Subsection (a) (1) does not prohibit giving advice or warning

to bring another into compliance with law.

(b) Grading. The offense is a Class 4 felony.