PPC § 177 — Furnishing false information

Statutory text (English)

Whoever, being legally bound to furnish information
on any subject to any public servant, as such, furnishes, as true, information on the subject which he
knows or has reason to believe to be false, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term
which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to 1[three thousand rupees], or with
both ;
or, if the information which he is legally bound to give respects the commission of an offence,
or is required for the purpose of preventing the commission of an offence, or in order to the apprehension of an offender, with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two
years, or with fine, or with both.
Illustrations
(a) A, a landholder, knowing of the commission of a murder within the limits of his estate,
willfully misinforms the Magistrate of the district that the death has occurred by
accident in consequence of the bite of a snake. A is guilty of the offence defined in this
section.
(b) A, a village watchman, knowing that a considerable body of strangers has passed
through his village in order to commit in the house of Z, a wealthy merchant residing
in a neighbouring place, and being bound, under clause 5, section VII, 3Regulation III,
1821, of the Bengal Code, to give early and punctual information of the above fact to
the officer of the nearest police station, willfully misinforms the police-officer that a
body of suspicious characters passed through the village with a view to commit dacoity
in a certain distant place in a different direction. Here A is guilty of the offence defined
in the later part of this section.
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Explanation.— In section 176 and in this section the word “offence” includes any act
committed at any place out of 2[Pakistan], which, if committed in 2[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 ; and the word “offender” includes any person who is
alleged to have been guilty of any such act.]

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Source citation: PPC (Act XLV of 1860) s.177: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE PAKISTAN PENAL CODE' (Act No. XLV of 1860), p. 76, 77, ingested 2026-09-15. Automated transcription from official source (pypdf extraction, audited artifact repair); human admin re-check required before production.

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