If a doctor fabricates the name of a hospital in the Mediclaim form, it amounts to criminal offense and imprisonment up to 3 years and a fineSection 192 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) discusses false evidence. Section 193 prescribes the punishment for the same.“192. Fabricating false evidence.—Whoever causes any circumstance to exist or 1[makes any false entry in any book or record, or electronic record or makes any document or electronic recordcontaining 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 assuch, 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”.“193. Punishment for false evidence.—Whoever intentionally gives false evidence in any stage of a judicial proceeding, or fabricates false evidence for the purpose of being used in any stage of ajudicial proceeding, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine, and whoever intentionally gives or fabricatesfalse evidence in any other case, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine.”