Section 112 - Contradictory statements
(1) Where a witness in any judicial proceedings (other than a person accused of an offence in criminal proceedings) has made a statement on oath or affirmation of some fact relevant in the...
Section 112A - Malicious information
(1) Any person who, with intent to cause harm or inconvenience to another person, gives or makes to—
(a) any magistrate or member of the police force; or
(b) any officer having power to apprehend...
Section 113 - Fabricating evidence
Any person who, with intent to mislead any tribunal in any judicial proceeding—
(a) fabricates evidence by any means other than perjury or subornation of perjury; or
(b) knowingly makes use of...
Section 114 - False swearing
Any person who swears falsely or makes a false affirmation or declaration before any person authorized to administer an oath or take a declaration upon a matter of public concern under such...
Section 115 - Deceiving witnesses
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...
Section 116 - Destroying evidence
Any person who, knowing that any book, document or thing of any kind whatsoever is or may be required in evidence in a judicial proceeding, wilfully removes or destroys it or renders it illegible or...
Section 118 - Compounding felonies
Any person who asks, receives or obtains, or agrees or attempts to receive or obtain, any property or benefit of any kind for himself or any other person upon any agreement or understanding that he...
Section 119 - Compounding penal actions
Any person who, having brought, or under pretence of bringing, an action against another person upon a penal law in order to obtain from him a penalty for any offence committed or alleged to have been...
Section 120 - Advertisements for stolen property
Any person who—
(a) publicly offers a reward for the return of any property which has been stolen or lost, and in the offer makes use of any words purporting that no questions will be asked, or that...
Section 122 - Rescue
(1) Any person who by force rescues or attempts to rescue from lawful custody any other person—
(a) is, if the last-named person is under sentence of death or imprisonment for life, or charged with...
Section 122B - Suspect to comply with order
Where a suspect in respect of whom an order has been made under section 122A resists compliance with the order, members of the police force, under supervision of an officer of or above the rank of...
Section 122C - Suspect may volunteer
(1) Nothing in section 122A shall be construed as preventing a suspect from undergoing a procedure by consent, without any order having been made:
Provided that every such consent shall be recorded...
Section 122D - Order or consent to be proven
The results of any test or analysis carried out on a sample obtained from a DNA sampling procedure within the meaning of section 122A shall not be admissible in evidence at the request of the...
Section 123 - Escape
Any person who, being in lawful custody, escapes from that custody is guilty of a misdemeanour.
Section 124 - Aiding escape
Any person who—
(a) aids a prisoner in escaping or attempting to escape from lawful custody; or
(b) conveys anything or causes anything to be conveyed into a prison with intent to facilitate the...
Section 126 - Obstructing court officers
Any person who wilfully obstructs or resists any person lawfully charged with the execution of an order or warrant of any court is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for one year....
Section 128 - Neglect of official duty
Every person employed in the public service who wilfully neglects to perform any duty which he is bound either by common law or by any written law to perform, provided that the discharge of the duty...
Section 130 - Disobedience of statutory duty
Everyone who wilfully disobeys any written law by doing any act which it forbids, or by omitting to do any act which it requires to be done, and which concerns the public or any part of the public, is...
Section 131 - Disobedience of lawful orders
Everyone who disobeys any order, warrant or command duly made, issued or given by any court, officer or any person acting in any public capacity and duly authorized in that behalf, is guilty of a...
Section 134 - Insult to religion
Any person who destroys, damages or defiles any place of worship or any object which is held sacred by any class of persons with the intention of thereby insulting the religion of any class of persons...
Section 136 - Trespassing on burial places
Every person who, with the intention of wounding the feelings of any person or of insulting the religion of any person, or with the knowledge that the feelings of any person are likely to be wounded,...
Section 137 - Hindering burial of dead body, etc.
Whoever unlawfully hinders the burial of the dead body of any person, or without lawful authority in that behalf disinters, dissects or harms the dead body of any person, or, being under a duty to...
Section 146 - Defilement of idiots or imbeciles
Any person who, knowing a person to be an idiot or imbecile, has or attempts to have unlawful carnal connection with him or her under circumstances not amounting to rape, but which prove that the...
Section 155 - Premises used for prostitution
If it is made to appear to a magistrate by information on oath that there is reason to suspect that any house or any part of a house is used by a woman or girl for the purposes of prostitution, and...
Section 156 - Brothels
Any person who—
(a) keeps or manages or assists in the management of a brothel; or
(b) being the tenant, lessee or occupier, or person in charge, of any
premises, knowingly permits the premises...
Section 157 - Conspiracy to defile
(1) Any person who conspires with another to induce any woman or girl, by means of any false pretence or other fraudulent means, to permit any man to have unlawful carnal knowledge of her is guilty of...
Section 158 - Attempts to procure abortion
Any person who, with intent to procure miscarriage of a woman, whether she is or is not with child, unlawfully administers to her or causes her to take any poison or other noxious thing, or uses any...
Section 159 - The like by woman with child
Any woman who, being with child, with intent to procure her own miscarriage, unlawfully administers to herself any poison or other noxious thing, or uses any force of any kind, or uses any other means...
Section 162 - Unnatural offences.
Any person who—
(a) has carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature; or
(b) has carnal knowledge of an animal; or
(c) permits a male person to have carnal knowledge of him or her...
Section 165 - Indecent practices between males
Any male person who, whether in public or private, commits any act of gross indecency with another male person, or procures another male person to commit any act of gross indecency with him, or...
Section 171 - Bigamy
Any person who, having a husband or wife living, goes through a ceremony of marriage which is void by reason of its taking place during the life of the husband or wife, is guilty of a felony and is...
Section 174 - Child stealing
(1) Any person who, with intent to deprive any parent, guardian or other person who has the lawful care or charge of a child under the age of fourteen years of the possession of the child—...