Of False Evidenceand Offences Against Public Justice
IPC Section 195A - Threatening any person to give false evidence
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Simple language explanation
IPC Section 195A deals with threatening any person to give false evidence.
Full official legal text
195A. Threatening any person to give false evidence. Whoever threatens another with any
injury to his person, reputation or property or to the person or reputatio n of any one in whom that person
is interested, with intent to cause that person to give false evidence shall be punished with imprisonment
of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both;
and if innocent person is convicted and sentenced in consequence of such false evidence, with death
or imprisonment for more than seven years, the person who threatens shall be punished with the same
punishment and sentence in the same manner and to the same extent such innocent person is punished and
sentenced.]
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