Section 89: Prohibition of fabricating evidence

1) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, no person shall fabricate evidence, cause any circumstance to exist, forge any document or electronic record or make any false entry in any document or electronic record, with intent to use it in a judicial or other legal proceeding.

2) A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years and a fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees.

Provided that where a sentence of imprisonment for life has been imposed on any person on the basis of such false evidence, the offender shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years and a fine not exceeding seventy thousand rupees.

3) Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Section, no sentence shall be so imposed under this Section that the sentence is in excess of the maximum sentence that can be imposed on the offence in relation to which the evidence has been fabricated.