Article (273)
2. In the event it is established that a statement made by one of the accused or one of the witnesses was obtained by coercion or under threat, such statement is disregarded and not held against him.

121.Any person who practises any fraud or deceit, or knowingly makes or exhibits any false statement, representation, token or writing, to any person called or to be called as a witness in any judicial proceeding, with intent to affect the testimony of such person as a witness, is guilty of a misdemeanour.

122. Any person who, knowing that any book, document, or other thing of any kind, is or may be required in evidence in a judicial proceeding, wilfully destroys it or renders it illegible or undecipherable or incapable of identification, with intent thereby to prevent it from being used in evidence, is guilty of a mis-demeanour.

123. (1) Any person who gives to the Attorney-General or to a police officer or any other officer entitled to institute a criminal prosecution, written information which he knows to be false of the commission of an offence punishable by law, is guilty of a misdemeanour.

It is immaterial whether the authority to whom the information was given was competent to receive the information.
It is immaterial whether proceedings have or have not been taken in pursuance of the information.

(2) Where as the result of any such written information any person has been prosecuted and such person has been acquitted, in any proceedings under the provisions of this section i n respect of such written information the onus shall be upon the defendant to show that he did not know that such information was false.