(1) No person who is under a
legal duty to produce any document or electronic record as evidence
in a judicial or other legal proceeding shall knowingly destroy,
obliterate, render illegible such document or record, or otherwise
make it incapable of being used as evidence.
(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 two years and a fine not
exceeding twenty thousand rupees.
(3) No person shall, in contravention of law, knowingly
destroy, obliterate, render illegible any document or electronic record
produced in any judicial or other legal proceeding or otherwise
making such document or record incapable of being used as evidence
or cause it to disappear illegally or give it to another person in an
unauthorized manner.
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(4) A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the
offence referred to in sub-section (3) shall be liable to a sentence of
imprisonment for a term not exceeding four years and a fine not
exceeding forty thousand rupees.
(5) If a public servant commits the offence referred to in
sub-section (1) or (3), he or she shall be liable to double the sentence
referred to in that sub-section.