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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

The Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 116

ABETMENT OF OFFENCE PUNISHABLE WITH IMPRISONMENT If offence be not committed Whoever abets an offence punishable with

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The Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 116 is part of The Indian Penal Code 1860 - ABETMENT OF OFFENCE PUNISHABLE WITH IMPRISONMENT If offence be not committed Whoever abets an offence punishable with. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

a) A offers a bribe to B, a public servant, as a reward for showing A some favour in the exercise of B's official functions. B refuses to accept the bribe. A is punishable under this section.

(b) A instigates B to give false evidence. Here, if B does not give false evidence, A has nevertheless committed the offence defined in this section, and is punishable accordingly.

(c) A, a police-officer, whose duty it is to prevent robbery, abets the commission of robbery. Here, though the robbery be not committed, A is liable to one-half of the longest term of imprisonment provided for that offence, and also to fine.

(d) B abets the commission of a robbery by A, a police officer, whose duty it is to prevent that offence. Here though the robbery be not committed, B is liable to one half of the longest term of imprisonment provided for the offence of robbery, and also to fine.

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Section Section 116 of the The Indian Penal Code 1860 (ABETMENT OF OFFENCE PUNISHABLE WITH IMPRISONMENT If offence be not committed Whoever abets an offence punishable with) is reproduced on this page as part of the The Indian Penal Code 1860. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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