IPC Section 108 — Abettor

abetment

Criminal

Summary

A person is considered to have abetted an offence if they help or encourage someone else to commit that offence. They also count as an abettor if they help or encourage an act that would be an offence if the person doing it were legally capable of committing that offence and had the same intention or knowledge as the person who helped or encouraged it.

Official Text

A person abets an offence, who abets either the commission of an offence, or the commission of an act which would be an offence, if committed by a person capable by law of committing an offence with the same intention or knowledge as that of the abettor.

Related Judgments

  • .. Petitioner vs 1. The State of Tamil Nadu — Madras High Court (2007)
  • STATE OF PUNJAB AND K.IRP A SHANKAR RAJ v. STATE OF U.P. MARCH 11, 1994 — Supreme Court of India (1994)
  • ..Petitioners vs 1.The District Collector, — Madras High Court (2006)
  • Crl.O.P.No.31316 of 2015 vs Subhankar Mukherjee — Madras High Court (2013)
  • 2007/Accused -2 vs 1.State represented by — Madras High Court (2007)
  • SMT. GIAN KAUR ETC. ETC v. THE STATE OF PUNJAB ETC. ETC. MARCH 21, 1996 — Supreme Court of India (1996)
  • S.C.R. 765 JOSEPH SHINE v. UNION OF INDIA — Supreme Court of India (2018)
  • ... Appellant/Accused vs State represented by — Madras High Court (2014)

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