244. Whoever fraudulently accepts, receives or claims any property or any interest therein, knowing that he has no right or rightful claim to such property or interest, or practises any deception touching any right to any property or any interest therein, intending thereby to prevent that property or interest therein from being taken as a forfeiture or in satisfaction of a fine, under a sentence which has been pronounced, or which he knows to be likely to be pronounced by a Court or other competent authority, or from being taken in execution of a decree or order which has been made, or which he knows to be likely to be made by a Court in a civil suit, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
Section 241 Destruction of document or electronic record to prevent its production as evidence
Section 242 False personation for purpose of act or proceeding in suit or prosecution
Section 244 Fraudulent claim to property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in execution
Section 245 Fraudulently suffering decree for sum not due
Section 246 Dishonestly making false claim in Court
Section 247 Fraudulently obtaining decree for sum not due
Section 248 False charge of offence made with intent to injure
Section 249 Harbouring offender
Section 250 Taking gift, etc., to screen an offender from punishment