Section 99: Prohibition of making investigation or prosecution maliciously

1) No authority responsible by law for making investigation or prosecution shall make investigation or prosecution maliciously, with intent to have an innocent person bear liability or to save the real offender.

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 six months or a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees or both the sentences.

3) Where any person suffers any kind of harm or loss from the offence referred to in sub-section (1), he or she shall be entitled to get compensation from such offender.