IPC Section 52A — Harbour

general explanations

General

Summary

The word "harbour" includes providing someone with shelter, food, drink, money, clothes, weapons, ammunition, or a way to travel, or helping them in any way to avoid being caught. This definition does not apply to section 157, or to section 130 when the person giving harbour is the wife or husband of the person being harboured.

Official Text

Except in section 157, and in section 130 in the case in which the harbour is given by the wife or husband of the person harboured, the word “harbour” includes the supplying a person with shelter, food, drink, money, clothes, arms, ammunition or means of conveyance, or the assisting a person by any means, whether of the same kind as those enumerated in this section or not, to evade apprehension.

Related Judgments

  • EASTERN BOOK COMPANY & ORS v. D.B. MODAK &ANR — Supreme Court of India (2007)
  • S.C.R. 583 583 TOFAN SINGH v. STATE OF TAMIL NADU — Supreme Court of India (2020)
  • J STATE THROUGH SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, CBI/SIT ETC v. NALINI AND ORS. ETC. ETC. MAY 11, 1999 — Supreme Court of India (1999)
  • SC (2025) Vol.5 p.522 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
  • S.C.R. 512 BABLU KUMARAND ORS v. STATE OF BIHAIRANDANR — Supreme Court of India (2015)
  • NAMDEO v. ST A TE OF MAHARASHTRA MARCH 13, 2007 — Supreme Court of India (2007)
  • ANKUSH MARUTI SHINDE AND OTHERS v. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA — Supreme Court of India (2019)
  • ... Appellant/2nd Accused vs State by the Inspector of Police, — Madras High Court (2013)

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