254. Every person who fabricates false evidence, with intent to defeat,
obstruct or pervert, the course of justice in any proceeding, shall be liable to
the same penalties as if he had committed perjury in that proceeding.
255.-(1) Every person who, having given evidence on oath at a preliminary
inquiry-
(a) wilfully gives at the trial evidence which contradicts the
evidence given by him upon the same subject-matter at
the preliminary inquiry, or
(b) wilfully varies or alters at the trial the evidence given by
him upon the same subject-matter at the preliminary
inquiry,
with intent unlawfully to shield or injure any person, or to deceive the court
or to defeat, obstruct or pervert the course of justice, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanour punishable either on indictment or summarily:
Provided that the punishment on summary conviction shall not exceed
imprisonment for six months.
(2) Upon the trial of any person for a crime under this section, it
shall not be necessary to prove the falsity of the evidence given either at the
preliminary inquiry or at the trial.
(3) No complaint or information for a crime under this section
shall be laid without the consent in writing of the Director of Public
Prosecutions.
256. Every person who intentionally and unlawfully falsifies, destroys,
injures, removes or conceals, any public register of marriages, births,
baptisms, deaths or burials, or any other public register or record, with intent
to defeat, obstruct or pervert the course of justice, or to defraud or injure any
person shall be liable to imprisonment for seven years.
257. Every person who intentionally and unlawfully destroys, injures,
removes or conceals, any will, or any document of title to land, with intent to
defeat, obstruct, or pervert the course of justice or to defraud or injure any
person, shall be liable to imprisonment for life.
258. Every person who unlawfully, with intent to defeat, obstruct or
pervert the course of justice, or to defraud or injure any person, removes,
conceals, injures or alters, any instrument or document used or intended to
be used in any judicial proceeding, shall be liable to imprisonment for two
years.
259. Every person who acknowledges or consents to any judgment or
confession or cause of action, or any deed to be enrolled, or any
recognisance or bail (whether the same be filed or not), in the name of any
other person without his consent is guilty of a felony.
260. Every person who with intent to defeat, obstruct or pervert the
course of justice, or to defraud or injure any person, endeavours to deceive
any court or judicial officer by personation, or by any false instrument,
document, seal or signature, shall be liable to imprisonment for two years.
261. Every person who fraudulently brings any action against another
person in a false or fictitious name, having no ground for such action, is guilty
of a misdemeanour.
262. Every person who in any manner wilfully causes any person to disobey
any summons, subpoena or order, for his attendance as a witness in any
proceeding, or for the production by him of any written or other evidence in
any judicial proceeding, is guilty of a misdemeanour.
263. Every person who with intent to defeat, obstruct or pervert the course
of justice at the trial of any person for any crime, in any manner causes any
person to refrain from giving evidence at such trial is guilty of a
misdemeanour.
264. Every person who without reasonable excuse makes default in
obeying any warrant, summons, process or order, lawfully issued or made
for requiring his attendance as a witness at any judicial proceeding, or the
production or giving of any evidence or thing at any judicial proceeding, is
guilty of a misdemeanour punishable either on indictment or summarily:
Provided that the punishment on summary conviction shall not
exceed three months' imprisonment.
265. Every person who with intent to prevent, obstruct or delay the
taking of any inquest upon the body or touching the death of any person, or
to defeat the ends of justice, buries or in any manner conceals or disposes
of such body, shall be liable to imprisonment for two years.
266. Every person who being under a duty as a magistrate, coroner,
gaoler, overseer, peace officer or in any other capacity, to give notice or
take any measure in order to the holding of any inquest upon the body or
touching the death of any person, wilfully or negligently fails to perform such
duty, shall be liable to imprisonment for two years.
267. Every person who with force, threats or tumult, hinders, interrupts
or disturbs the proceedings of any court, or wilfully and unlawfully with
force, threats or tumult, hinders any person from entering or quitting any
court, or removes him therefrom, or detains him therein, shall be liable to
imprisonment for two years.
268. Every person who, pending any proceedings in any court, publishes
in writing or otherwise anything concerning such proceedings or any party
thereto, with intent to excite any popular prejudice for or against any party to
such proceedings, is guilty of a misdemeanour.
269. Every person who being bound by law to obey any order, warrant,
summons or process made or issued by any court or magistrate, wilfully
neglects without reasonable excuse to obey the same in any material
particular shall, without prejudice to any other punishment or penalty
provided by law, be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for three
months.
