IPC Section 120 — Concealing design to commit offence punishable with imprisonment

Summary

If a person hides or lies about a plan to commit a crime that is punishable with imprisonment, and does so with the intention of helping that crime happen, or knowing that it will likely help, then that person is covered by this section. The hiding or lying must be done through a voluntary action or an illegal failure to act. This section only describes what counts as such concealment or false representation; it does not state any punishment for it.

Official Text

Whoever, intending to facilitate or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby facilitate the commission of an offence punishable with imprisonment, 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

• J STATE THROUGH SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, CBI/SIT ETC v. NALINI AND ORS. ETC. ETC. MAY 11, 1999 — Supreme Court of India (1999)
• MANGE v. CBI, THROUGH ITS S.P — Supreme Court of India (2011)
• STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH v. CHEEMALAPATI GANESWARA RAO & ANR — Supreme Court of India (1964)
• : Appellant/De facto complainant in Crl.A.(MD).No.251 of 2016. vs State, Rep by the Inspector of Police, — Madras High Court ()
• ABDUL HAMEED v. STATE REP. BY THE INSPECTOR OF POLICE — Supreme Court of India (2018)
• ABU MUJAHID v. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA — Supreme Court of India (2012)
• VASANT TUKARAM PAWAR v. ST A TE OF MAHARASHTRA APRIL 15, 2005 — Supreme Court of India (2005)
• YASH PAL MITTAL v. STATE OF PUNJAB N — Supreme Court of India (1978)

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BNS §60 — Concealing design to commit offence punishable with imprisonment