IPC Section 212 — Harbouring offender

false evidence and offences against public justice

Criminal

Summary

If someone has committed an offence, any person who hides or shelters that offender, knowing or having reason to believe they are the offender, and does so with the aim of protecting them from being punished by law, is covered by this section.

Official Text

Whenever an offence has been committed, whoever harbours or conceals a person whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the offender, with the intention of screening him from legal punishment;

Related Judgments

  • Rakesh Kailas Shelar vs The State of Maharashtra — Bombay High Court (Mumbai Principal Seat) (2024)
  • BAIL APPLICATION NO. 2010 OF 2018; Ghanshyam Pawankumar Chaudhari vs State of Maharashtra — Bombay High Court (Mumbai Principal Seat) (2018)
  • LAXMI RAJ SHETTY AND ANR. vs STATE OF TAMIL NADU — Supreme Court of India (1988)

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