Concealing design to commit offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life
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Summary
If a person, intending to help or knowing it likely will help, hides a plan to commit an offence punishable with death or life imprisonment—by an act, illegal omission, encryption or any information‑hiding tool—or knowingly makes a false statement about that plan, they commit an offence. If the planned offence is actually committed, punishment may be imprisonment for up to seven years. If it is not committed, punishment may be imprisonment for up to three years and a fine.
Example
Ravi learns a gang plans to kill a shopkeeper. He encrypts messages and falsely tells police the plot targets a different neighbourhood, intending to mislead them. If the killing occurs Ravi can face up to seven years' imprisonment; if it does not occur he can face up to three years' imprisonment and a fine.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhoever intending to facilitate or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby facilitate the commission of an offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life, voluntarily conceals by any act or illegal omission, or by the use of encryption or any other information hiding tool, the existence of a design to commit such offence or makes any representation which he knows to be false respecting such design shall,
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(a) if that offence be committed, be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years; or
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(b) if the offence be not committed, with imprisonment of either description, for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Illustration
A, knowing that dacoity is about to be committed at B, falsely informs the Magistrate that a dacoity is about to be committed at C, a place in an opposite direction, and thereby misleads the Magistrate with intent to facilitate the commission of the offence. The dacoity is committed at B in pursuance of the design. A is punishable under this section.
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