All India Bar Examination (AIBE) 15-XV Previous Year Question Papers with Answers

The correct option is B: Section 192 of IPC.

This section deals with fabricating false evidence with the intention of causing any person to be convicted of an offence. According to this section, whoever causes any circumstance to exist or makes any false entry in any book or record or electronic record or makes any document or electronic record containing a false statement, intending that such circumstance, false entry or false statement may appear in evidence in a judicial proceeding, or in a proceeding taken by law before a public servant as such, or before an arbitrator, and that such circumstance, false entry or false statement, so appearing in evidence, may cause any person who in such proceeding is to form an opinion upon the evidence, to entertain an erroneous opinion touching any point material to the result of such proceeding, is said to fabricate false evidence.

In this case, A has written a letter in imitation of Z's handwriting, purporting to be addressed to an accomplice in a criminal conspiracy, and put the letter in a place where he knows that the police are likely to search. A has done this with the intention of causing Z to be convicted of a criminal conspiracy. Therefore, A has fabricated false evidence and committed an offence under section 192 of IPC.