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.
447. Punishment for fraud
Without prejudice to any liability including repayment of any debt under this Act
or any other law for the time being in force, any person who is found to be guilty of fraud,
shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months but
which may extend to ten years and shall also be liable to fine which shall not be less than the
amount involved in the fraud, but which may extend to three times the amount involved in
the fraud:
Provided that where the fraud in question involves public interest, the term of
imprisonment shall not be less than three years.
Explanation.—For the purposes of this section—
(i) “fraud” in relation to affairs of a company or any body corporate, includes
any act, omission, concealment of any fact or abuse of position committed by any
person or any other person with the connivance in any manner, with intent to deceive,
to gain undue advantage from, or to injure the interests of, the company or its
shareholders or its creditors or any other person, whether or not there is any wrongful
gain or wrongful loss;
(ii) “wrongful gain” means the gain by unlawful means of property to which the
person gaining is not legally entitled;
(iii) “wrongful loss” means the loss by unlawful means of property to which the
person losing is legally entitled.
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