The Supreme Court observed that threatening a person to withdraw a complaint or FIR or settle the dispute would not attract Section 195A of the Indian Penal Code.
The later part of Section 195A makes it very clear that false evidence means false evidence before the Court of law, the bench of Justices B R Gavai and J B Pardiwala observed.
In this case, the allegation in FIR is that the accused persons threatened and pressurised the first informant to withdraw her first FIR registered for the offences punishable under Sections 376D, 323, 120B, 354A and 452 resply of the IPC. The petition filed by the accused before the High Court of Allahabad seeking quashing of FIR was dismissed.