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Penal Code, 1860 (Act No. XLV of 1860).
of an offence, or is required for the purpose of preventing the commission of an
offence, or in order to the apprehension of an offender, with imprisonment of
either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with
both.
Illustrations
(b) A, a landholder, knowing of the commission of a murder within the limits of
his estate, wilfully misinforms the Magistrate of the district that the death has
occurred by accident in consequence of the bite of a snake. A is guilty of the
offence defined in this section.
(b) A, a village watchman, knowing that a considerable body of strangers has
passed through his village in order to commit a dacoity in the house of Z, a
wealthy merchant residing in a neighbouring place, and being bound, under 69[
any law for the time being in force], to give early and punctual information of
the above fact to the officer of the nearest police station, wilfully misinforms the
policeofficer that a body of suspicious characters passed through the village with
a view to commit dacoity in a certain distant place in different direction. Here A
is guilty of the offence defined in the latter part of this section.
Explanation.In section 176 and in this section the word "offence" includes any
act committed at any place out of Bangladesh, which, if committed in Bangladesh,
would be punishable under any of the following sections, namely, 302, 304, 382,
392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399, 402, 435, 436, 449, 450, 457, 458,
459 and 460; and the word "offender' includes any person who is alleged to have
been guilty of any such act.
Refusing oath or
affirmation when duly
required by public
servant to make it
178. Whoever refuses to bind himself by an oath or affirmation to state the truth,
when required so to bind himself by a public servant legally competent to require
that he shall so bind himself, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a
term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one
thousand taka, or with both.
Refusing to answer
public servant
authorized to
question
179. Whoever, being legally bound to state the truth on any subject to�� any public
servant, refuses to answer any question demanded of him touching that subject
by such public servant in the exercise of the legal powers of such public servant,
shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to six
months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand taka, or with both.
180. Whoever refuses to sign any statement made by him, when required to sign
that statement by a public servant legally competent to require that he shall sign
that statement, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may
extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred taka, or
with both.
181. Whoever, being legally bound by an oath or affirmation to state the truth on
any subject to any public servant or other person authorized by law to administer
such oath or affirmation, makes, to such public servant or other person or as
aforesaid, touching that subject, any statement which is false, and which he
either knows or believes to be false or does not believe to be true, shall be
punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to
three years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Refusing to sign
statement
False statement on
oath or affirmation to
public servant or
person authorized to
administer an oath or
affirmation
False information
with intent to cause
public servant to use
his lawful power to
the injury of another
person
182. Whoever gives to any public servant any information which he knows or
believes to be false, intending thereby to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he
will thereby cause, such public servant
(a) to do or omit anything which such public servant ought not to do or omit if
the true state of facts respecting which such information is given were known by
him, or
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