Companies Act, 2013

Penalty for furnishing false statement, mutilation, destruction of documents.

229. 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 .