Question

IPC Section 197 is related to:

• A. Causing disappearance of evidence
• B. Issuing false certificate by a doctor
• C. Giving false evidence
• D. b and c both

Hint:

IPC 197 is the false certificate section.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

Step 1: Recall the cluster of IPC sections that a forensic medicine student links with medical practice and certificates.

Step 2: Section 197 of the IPC punishes a person who issues or signs a certificate that he knows or believes to be false in a material point. Applied to a physician, this is the act of giving a false medical certificate, matching option b.

Step 3: The other acts belong elsewhere. Destroying or hiding evidence is dealt with under Section 201, and giving false evidence on oath is covered by Sections 191 to 193.

Step 4: Because only the false certificate definition fits Section 197, the composite choice combining false certificate and false evidence is incorrect. The right answer is issuing a false certificate by a doctor.

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