This section covers false charge of offence made with intent to injure in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
False charge of an offence made with intent to injure. Whoever, with intent to cause injury to any person, institutes or causes to be instituted any criminal proceeding against that person, or falsely charges any person with having committed an offence, knowing that there is no just or lawful ground for such proceeding or charge against that person, — (a) shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years, or with fine which may extend to two lakh rupees, or with both; (b) if such criminal proceeding be instituted on a false charge of an offence punishable with death, imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for ten years or upwards, shall be punishable with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
What was the old IPC code for Section 248 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, false charge of offence made with intent to injure was covered in S. 211*.