Indian Penal Code Section 204: destruction of 1 [a document or an electronic record] to stop it from being used as evidence. Whoever with the intent to prevent the production or use of the same as evidence before such Court or public servant as aforesaid, or after he shall have been lawfully compelled to do so, secretes or destroys any 1[document or electronic record] which he may be lawfully compelled to produce as evidence in a Court of Justice, or in any proceeding lawfully held before a public servant, as such, or obliterates or renders the whole or any part of such