IPC Section 35 — When such an act is criminal by reason of its being done with a criminal knowledge or intention

Summary

If several people take part in an act that is only a crime because it is done with a specific criminal knowledge or intention, then each person who joins in the act with that same knowledge or intention is responsible for the act just as if they had done it alone with that knowledge or intention.

Official Text

Whenever an act, which is criminal only by reason of its being done with a criminal knowledge or intention, is done by several persons, each of such persons who joins in the act with such knowledge or intention is liable for the act in the same manner as if the act were done by him alone with that knowledge or intention.

Old <-> New Code Mapping

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