Section 24: Offences

24. Offences Any person who— (a) fails to attend the Commission after having been summoned to do so; (b) knowingly gives false evidence, or evidence which he knows to be misleading, before the Commission; (c) conceals, destroys, alters, tampers with, or otherwise disposes of, any article, or book, record, accounts, report or data, stored electronically or otherwise, or other document, which he has been summoned or required to produce; (d) procures the false testimony of a witness, or interferes with a witness on account of his testimony, before the Commission; (e) knowingly makes or causes to be made a false complaint before the Commission; (f) at any sitting of the Commission— (i) insults a member; or (ii) interrupts the proceedings; (g) obstructs or assaults a member or an officer of the Commission in the discharge of his functions or exercise of his powers; or (h) impersonates a member or an officer of the Commission, shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 100,000 rupees and to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years.