IPC Section 52A: “Harbour-“
Indian Penal Code, 1860 · Chapter 2: General Explanations
Repealed on 1 July 2024 and replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS).
1[52A. “Harbour”.—Except in section 157, and in section 130 in the case in which the harbour is given by the wife or husband of the person harboured, the word "harbour" includes the supplying a person with shelter, food, drink, money, clothes, arms, ammunition or means of conveyance, or the assisting a person by any means, whether of the same kind as those enumerated in this section or not, to evade apprehension.]
1. Ins. by Act 8 of 1942, s. 2.
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Other sections in this chapter
- 6. Definitions in the Code to be understood subject to exceptions
- 7. Sense of expression once explained
- 8. Gender
- 9. Number
- 10. “Man”. “Woman”
- 11. “Person”
- 12. “Public”
- 13. [Omitted.]
- 14. “Servant of Government”
- 15. [Repealed.]
- 16. [Repealed.]
- 17. “Government”
- 18. “India”
- 19. “Judge”
- 20. “Court of Justice”
- 21. “Public servant”
- 22. “Moveable property”
- 23. “Wrongful gain”. “Wrongful loss”. Gaining wrongfully/ Losing wrongfully
- 24. “Dishonestly”
- 25. “Fraudulently”
- 26. “Reason to believe”
- 27. Property in possession of wife, clerk or servant
- 28. “Counterfeit”
- 29. “Document”
- 29A. “Electronic record”
- 30. “Valuable security”
- 31. “A will”
- 32. Words referring to acts include illegal omissions
- 33. “Act”. “Omission”
- 34. Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention
- 35. When such an act is criminal by reason of its being done with a criminal knowledge or intention
- 36. Effect caused partly by act and partly by omission
- 37. Co-operation by doing one of several acts constituting an offence
- 38. Persons concerned in criminal act may be guilty of different offences
- 39. “Voluntarily”
- 40. “Offence”
- 41. “Special law”
- 42. “Local law”
- 43. “Illegal”.“Legally bound to do”
- 44. “Injury”
- 45. “Life”
- 46. “Death”
- 47. “Animal”
- 48. “Vessel”
- 49. “Year”. “Month”
- 50. “Section”
- 51. “Oath”
- 52. “Good faith”