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Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 · Chapter IV: Of Abetment, Criminal Conspiracy And Attempt

Section 48 BNS: Abetment outside India for offence in India

Corresponding IPC
Section 108A IPC
Note
Split from IPC 108A; this part covers abetment outside India.

Bare Act text

A person abets an offence within the meaning of this Sanhita who, without and beyond India, abets the commission of any act in India which would constitute an offence if committed in India. A, in country X, instigates B, to commit a murder in India, A is guilty of abetting murder.

Text as enacted in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 45 of 2023), in force from 1 July 2024. Source: India Code, Government of India.

In simple words

A person abets an offence under the Sanhita if, outside India, he abets an act in India that would be an offence if committed in India. The illustration is A, in another country, instigating B to commit murder in India.

Chapter IV: Of Abetment, Criminal Conspiracy And Attempt

  1. 45 Abetment of a thing
  2. 46 Abettor
  3. 47 Abetment in India of offences outside India
  4. 48 Abetment outside India for offence in India
  5. 49 Punishment of abetment if act abetted is committed in consequence and where no express provision is made for its punishment
  6. 50 Punishment of abetment if person abetted does act with different intention from that of abettor
  7. 51 Liability of abettor when one act abetted and different act done
  8. 52 Abettor when liable to cumulative punishment for act abetted and for act done
  9. 53 Liability of abettor for an effect caused by act abetted different from that intended by abettor
  10. 54 Abettor present when offence is committed
  11. 55 Abetment of offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life
  12. 56 Abetment of offence punishable with imprisonment
  13. 57 Abetting commission of offence by public or by more than ten persons
  14. 58 Concealing design to commit offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life
  15. 59 Public servant concealing design to commit offence which it is his duty to prevent
  16. 60 Concealing design to commit offence punishable with imprisonment
  17. 61 Criminal conspiracy
  18. 62 Punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonment
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