IPC Section 201 is now BNS Section 238
- IPC 201 (Causing disappearance of evidence of offence) → BNS 238 Causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender
Verbatim · BNS 238238. Causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen 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 shall, — (a) 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…
Read the full BNS Section 238 →
Offences committed before 1 July 2024 are still charged and tried under the IPC; the BNS applies to offences on or after that date.
Old-to-new correspondence is indicative and not always one-to-one; read the new text itself.