Section 22(3) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 deals with:

Section 22(3) punishes a person, "not being a child", who makes a false complaint or provides false information against a child, "knowing it to be false", thereby victimising the child, with imprisonment up to one year, fine or both. A false complaint by a child attracts no punishment under section 22(2); failure to report is dealt with by section 21, and media reports by section 23.