Punishment of abetment if person abetted does act with different intention from that of abettor
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Summary
If you incite or assist someone to commit an offence but that person does the act with a different intention or knowledge, you are punished according to the offence that would have applied if the act had been done with your intention or knowledge. You are not punished for any other offence the doer actually committed.
Example
Ravi tells Arjun to take a phone from an unattended table (intent: theft). Arjun instead pulls a knife and injures the owner while taking it (intent different, amounting to robbery). Ravi will be punished only for the theft he intended, not for the robbery or the injury Arjun actually caused.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhoever abets the commission of an offence shall, if the person abetted does the act with a different intention or knowledge from that of the abettor, be punished with the punishment provided for the offence which would have been committed if the act had been done with the intention or knowledge of the abettor and with no other.
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