BNS Section 47 — Abetment in India of offences outside India

Summary

A person commits abetment under this Sanhita if they, while in India, encourage or help the commission of any act outside India that would be considered an offence if it were done in India. The location of the act itself does not matter; what matters is that the abetment happens in India and the act, if performed within India, would be a crime.

Illustration: If A, while in India, instigates B, a foreigner in country X, to commit a murder in that country, A is guilty of abetting murder.

Official Text

A person abets an offence within the meaning of this Sanhita who, in India, abets the commission of any act without and beyond India which would constitute an offence if committed in India.

Illustration. A, in India, instigates B, a foreigner in country X, to commit a murder in that country, A is guilty of abetting murder.

Related Judgments

• SC (2025) Vol.3 p.1309 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
• SC (2025) Vol.11 p.291 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
• SC (2025) Vol.3 p.1531 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
• SC (2025) Vol.6 p.280 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
• SC (2025) Vol.2 p.80 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
• SC (2024) Vol.8 p.670 — Supreme Court of India (2024)
• SC (2025) Vol.4 p.2730 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
• SC (2025) Vol.7 p.105 — Supreme Court of India (2025)

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• IPC §108A — Abetment in India of offences outside India