PPC § 201 — Causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen

Statutory text (English)

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 1[imprisonment for life] ; and if the offence is punishable with
2[imprisonment for life], 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 longest
term of the imprisonment provided for the offence, or with fine, or with both.

Illustration
A, knowing that B has murdered Z, assists B to hide the body with the intention of screening
B from punishment. A is liable to imprisonment of either description for seven years, and also to fine.

Source and verification

Source citation: PPC (Act XLV of 1860) s.201: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE PAKISTAN PENAL CODE' (Act No. XLV of 1860), p. 83, 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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