Perjury
shashidhar
(Querist) 22 October 2013
This query is : Resolved
During a civil litigation if a defendant files a counter with multiple counts of perjury, how to proceed in the case?
R.K Nanda
(Expert) 23 October 2013
counter reply/affidavit or ws? tell
Raj Kumar Makkad
(Expert) 23 October 2013
Post the facts of your query otherwise the same is just an academic practice.
Dr V. Nageswara Rao
(Expert) 23 October 2013
1. Under S. 191 IPC any sworn statement to the Court containing falsehood which the maker knows to be false is giving false evidence.
2. You have to launch a criminal prosecution u/S. 191 r.w. S. 193 IPC.
3. You must be able to prove that the maker of the statement knew it to be false when he made it.
4. It is not necessary that the statement should be believed by the Court o that somebody suffered any loss.