This is a real-world medical entrance exam question, please give the true answer based on the question and selection. Topic name: None, Subject name: Forensic Medicine
Hostile witness is covered under IPC section ? 
Select and explain. 
A. 191, B. 192, C. 193, D. 194
A: 191
Answer: A: 191 
Explanation: Ans. is 'A' i.e., 191. Hostility is one form of perjury. A hostile witness is one who's provided an eyewitness account of a criminal event or other information to help the prosecution build a case, but has later turned in cou, giving a different version of events or contradictory information. A witness is termed hostile, when he gives a ceain statement on his knowledge about commission of a crime before the police but refutes it when called as witness before the cou during trial. IPC 191 - Giving false evidence (Perjury)