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.