Act Number: 18

Act Name: The Companies Act, 2013

Year: 2013

Enactment Date: 2013-08-29

Long Title: An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to companies.

Ministry: Ministry of Corporate Affairs

Department:

Section 229: Penalty for furnishing false statement, mutilation, destruction of documents
    Where a person who is required to provide an explanation or make a statement during the course of inspection, inquiry or investigation, or an officer or other employee of a company or other body corporate which is also under investigation,--
         (a) destroys, mutilates or falsifies, or conceals or tampers or unauthorisedly removes, or is a party to the destruction, mutilation or falsification or concealment or tampering or unauthorised removal of, documents relating to the property, assets or affairs of the company or the body corporate;
         (b) makes, or is a party to the making of, a false entry in any document concerning the company or body corporate; or
         (c) provides an explanation which is false or which he knows to be false, he shall be punishable for fraud in the manner as provided in section 447.
    
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