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Indian Penal Code, 1860 · Chapter X: Of Contempts of the Lawful Authority of Public Servants

Section 175: Omission to produce document to public servant by person legally bound to produce it

The Indian Penal Code, 1860 was repealed and replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 from 1 July 2024. It still applies to matters and proceedings from before that date, as the repealing law provides.

Now in the BNS section 210 (Omission to produce document or electronic record to public servant by person legally bound to produce it)

In plain words

Intentionally failing to produce or hand over a document or electronic record to a public servant when legally bound to is punishable with simple imprisonment for up to one month, or a fine of up to five hundred rupees, or both. If it is due to a Court of Justice, the punishment is up to six months, or a fine of up to one thousand rupees, or both.

A simplified explanation, prepared with AI assistance from the official text below and checked automatically against it for numbers and cross-references. The official text is the law and prevails over this summary. Not legal advice.

Official text

Whoever, being legally bound to produce or deliver up any [document or electronic record] to any public servant, as such, intentionally omits so to produce or deliver up the same, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both; or, if the [document or electronic record] is to be produced or delivered up to a Court of Justice, with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.

Corresponding sections were matched by comparing the wording of both official texts, and for the IPC and BNS, also against a published correspondence table. Wording, punishments and structure often changed, so read both sections before relying on the match.

Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the text of the Act as it stood before its repeal. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here.

Supreme Court judgments citing the section 175