Section 177. Furnishing false information
- A, a landholder, knowing of the commission of a murder within the limits of his estate, willfully 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.
- A, a village watchman, knowing that a considerable body of strangers has passed through his village in order to commit in the house of Z, a wealthy merchant residing in a neighbouring place, and being bound, under clause 5, section VII, 3Regulation III, 1821, of the Bengal Code, to give early and punctual information of the above fact to the officer of the nearest police station, willfully misinforms the police-officer that a body of suspicious characters passed through the village with a view to commit dacoity in a certain distant place in a different direction. Here A is guilty of the offence defined in the later part of this section[1][2][3]ommitted in , 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.]
Annotations (3)
amendment
[1]
Ord. 86 of 02, s.2 and Sch. 1
amendment
[2]
the Criminal Law Amdt. Act, 1939 (22 of 1939), s. 2
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Act 17 of 1862. committed at any place out of , which, if c