Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita — Section 234

234. Whoever issues or signs any certificate required by law to be given or signed, or relating to any fact of which such certificate is by law admissible in evidence, knowing or believing that such certificate is false in any material point, shall be punished in the same manner as if he gave false evidence.

Using as true a certificate known to be false.

False statement made in declaration which is by law receivable as evidence.

Using as true such declaration knowing it to be false.

Causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender.