Destruction of evidence: criminalizes hiding or destroying documents and electronic records to prevent their use as evidence. The offence penalizes secreting, destroying, obliterating or rendering illegible any document or electronic record lawfully required to be produced, where done with the intention of preventing its production or use as evidence before a court or a public servant, including after lawful summons. Conviction may attract imprisonment of either description for a term up to three years, or a fine up to five thousand rupees, or both.