Perjury and Indian laws

Advocate Arunagiri has spoken on the perjury and Indian laws in detail. In simple terms he refers to perjury as a false statement by witness or any incitement by advocate to make false statement by the witness, both advocate and witness are punishable under Section 193 of Indian penal code. Perjury means a witness giving a false statement in any stage of a judicial proceeding or fabricates false evidence for the purpose of being used in any stage of a judicial proceeding after taking the oath in the court of law. A witness who claimed he did not remember an event when questioned at one point in testimony, but who clearly recalled aspects of the event when asked later. This amounts to perjury based on the circumstance only. Any document produced to public officers written by the accused and later testifies a contradictory statement in court, it amounts to perjury.I conclude by saying that Amendment should be introduced in law so that the judge administering the oath should caution that he is bound to state truth on oath and if he does not state truth, he shall be prosecuted for giving false evidence so as to save the judicial system from being Deaf and blind.