IPC Section 119 — Public servant concealing design to commit offence which it is his duty to prevent

Summary

A public servant commits an offence under this section if they hide or cover up a plan to commit a crime that they are supposed to prevent, and they do this either to help the crime happen or knowing that their action will likely help it happen. This hiding can be done through a positive act or by illegally failing to act. It also applies if the public servant makes a false statement about such a plan, knowing it to be false.

Official Text

Whoever, being a public servant intending to facilitate or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby facilitate the commission of an offence which it is his duty as such public servant to prevent, 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:

Related Judgments

• CRL RC/1215/2001 — Madras High Court (2001)
• RAGHUNATH ANANT GOVILKAR v. STATE OF 585 MAHARASHTRAAND ORS — Supreme Court of India (2008)
• STATE OF KERALA v. V. PADMANABHAN NAIR JULY 14, 1999 — Supreme Court of India (1999)
• ...Petitioner vs 1.The Secretary, — Madras High Court (2013)
• R.M. YELLATTI v. THE ASST. EXECUTIVE ENGINEER — Supreme Court of India (S)
• CRL RC/190/2008 — Madras High Court (2008)
• UNION OF INDIA v. SA VJIRAM AND ANR. DECEMBER 17, 2003 B — Supreme Court of India (S)
• S.C.R. 85 STATE OF U.P v. PARAS NATH SINGH — Supreme Court of India (2009)

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BNS §59 — Public servant concealing design to commit offence which it is his duty to prevent