201. Causing disappearance of evidence of an offence committed, or giving false information touching it, to screen the offender

Whoever, knowing or having reason to believe that an offence has been committed, causes any evidence of the commission of that offence to disappear with the intention of screening the offender from legal punishment, or with the knowledge that he is likely thereby to screen the offender from legal punishment, or with that intention or knowledge gives any information respecting the offence which he knows or believes to be false, shall, if the offence which he knows or believes to have been committed is punishable with death, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine;

and if the offence is punishable with imprisonment for life or with imprisonment which may extend to ten years or upwards, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to

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three years, and shall also be liable to fine; and if the offence is punishable with imprisonment for any term not extending to ten years, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one-fourth part of the longest term of the imprisonment provided for the offence or with fine or with both.

A, knowing that B has murdered Z, assists B to hide the body with the intention of screening B, from punishment. A is liable to imprisonment for seven years, and also to fine.