IPC Section 118 — Concealing design to commit offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life

Summary

If someone hides or lies about a plan to commit a crime that is punishable by death or life imprisonment, and they do this intending to help the crime happen or knowing it will likely help, they are covered by this rule. The hiding or lying must be done through a voluntary action or an illegal failure to act. This section only describes what counts as the act of concealment or false representation about such a serious crime plan.

Official Text

Whoever intending to facilitate or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby facilitate the commission of an offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life, voluntarily conceals, by any act or illegal omission, the existence of a design to commit such offence or makes any representation which he knows to be false respecting such design:

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BNS §58 — Concealing design to commit offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life