Section 166 - Destruction of document to prevent its production as evidence. Screening of Offenders

Whoever secretes or destroys a document, which he may be lawfully compelled to produce as evidence in a court of justice or in a proceeding do lawfully held before a public officer as such, or obliterates or renders illegible the whole or a part of the document with the intention of preventing the same from being produced or used as evidence before that court or public officer as aforesaid or after he shall have been lawfully summoned or required to produce the same for that purpose, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or with fine or with both.