BNS 60 — Concealing design to commit offence punishable with imprisonment.

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Statutory text

60. 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.
Of criminal conspiracy
Criminal conspiracy.

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