Concealing design to commit offence punishable with imprisonment
Chapter 4: Abetment, criminal conspiracy and attempt
Whoever, intending to facilitate or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby facilitate the commission of an offence punishable with imprisonment, voluntarily conceals, by any act or illegal omission, the existence of a design to commit such offence, or makes any representation which he knows to be false respecting such design shall,––
(a) if the offence be committed, be punished with imprisonment of the description provided for the offence, for a term which may extend to one-fourth; and
(b) if the offence be not committed, to one-eighth,
of the longest term of such imprisonment, or with such fine as is provided for the offence, or with both.
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 45 of 2023). As printed in the Gazette on 25 December 2023. Later amendments, if any, are not included.
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- 55Abetment of offence punishable with death or imprisonment for lifeIPC 115
- 56Abetment of offence punishable with imprisonmentIPC 116
- 57Abetting commission of offence by public or by more than ten personsIPC 117
- 58Concealing design to commit offence punishable with death or imprisonment for lifeIPC 118
- 59Public servant concealing design to commit offence which it is his duty to preventIPC 119