BNS Section 60: Concealing design to commit offence punishable with imprisonment
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 · Chapter 4: Of Abetment, Criminal Conspiracy and Attempt
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¶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.
Study: explanations and related material
Replaces IPC 120. IPC → BNS converterSource: BPR&D BNS–IPC corresponding section table (UP Police, 2024-06-28)
Punishment, bail and trial
60(a)Concealing a design to commit an offence punishable with imprisonment, if offence be committed.
- Punishment
- Imprisonment extending to one-fourth of the longest term provided for the offence, or fine, or both.
- Cognizable or not
- According as offence abetted is cognizable or non-cognizable
- Bailable or not
- According as offence abetted is bailable or non-bailable
- Triable by
- Court by which offence abetted is triable
60(b)If the offence be not committed.
- Punishment
- Imprisonment extending to one-eighth part of the longest term provided for the offence, or fine, or both.
- Cognizable or not
- According as offence abetted is cognizable or non-cognizable
- Bailable or not
- Bailable
- Triable by
- Court by which offence abetted is triable
Source: BNSS First Schedule, Gazette of India, 25 December 2023, p. 159. The Schedule gives the substance of the section, not its full definition, and a State may have amended the classification for its territory. See it in the full First Schedule
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Other sections in this chapter
- 45. Abetment of a thing
- 46. Abettor
- 47. Abetment in India of offences outside India
- 48. Abetment outside India for offence in India
- 49. Punishment of abetment if act abetted is committed in consequence and where no express provision is made for its punishment
- 50. Punishment of abetment if person abetted does act with different intention from that of abettor
- 51. Liability of abettor when one act abetted and different act done
- 52. Abettor when liable to cumulative punishment for act abetted and for act done
- 53. Liability of abettor for an effect caused by act abetted different from that intended by abettor
- 54. Abettor present when offence is committed
- 55. Abetment of offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life
- 56. Abetment of offence punishable with imprisonment
- 57. Abetting commission of offence by public or by more than ten persons
- 58. Concealing design to commit offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life
- 59. Public servant concealing design to commit offence which it is his duty to prevent
- 61. Criminal conspiracy
- 62. Punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonment