201. Causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to
screen offender: Whoever, knowing or having reason to believe that an offence has been
committed, causes any evidence of the commission of that offence to disappear, with the
intention of screening the offender from legal punishment, or with that intention gives any
information respecting the offence which he knows or believes to be false;
if a capital offence: shall, if the offence which he knows or believes to have been
committed is punishable with death, be punished with imprisonment of either description
for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine;
if punishable with imprisonment for life: and if the offence is punishable with.
imprisonment for fife, or with imprisonment which may extend to ten years shall be
punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three
years, and shall also be liable to fine:
if punishable with less than ten years' imprisonment: and if the offence is
punishable with imprisonment for any term not extending to ten years, shall be punished
with imprisonment of the description provided for the offence, for a term which may extend
to one-fourth part of the longer term of the imprisonment provided for the offence, or with
tine, or with both,
Illustration
A, knowing that B has murdered Z, assists B to hide the body with the intention of
screening 6 from punishment. A is liable to imprisonment of either description for seven
years, and also to fine.
202. Intentional omission to give information of offence by person bound to inform:
Whoever, knowing or having reason to believe that an offence has been committed,
intentionally omits to give any information respecting that offence which, he is legally
bound to give, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which
may extend to six months, or with fine, or with both.
203. Giving false information respecting an offence committed : Whoever, knowing or
having reason to believe that an offence has been committed, gives any information
respecting that offence which he knows or believes to be false shall be punished with
imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine,
or with both.
Explanation: In Sections 201 and 202 in this section the word "offence" includes any act
committed at any place out of Pakistan, which, if committed in Pakistan, 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.
204. Destruction of document to prevent its production as evidence: Whoever
Secrets or destroys any document which he may be lawfully compelled to produce as
evidence in a Court of Justice, or in any proceeding lawfully held before a public servant,