BNS PART 57 | SECTION 60 BNS | Dr. Jinesh Soni | 2024

Section 60 in THE BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023 – BNS
Concealing
design to
commit
offence
punishable
with
imprisonment.

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 shall,––
(a) if the offence be committed, be punished with imprisonment of the description
provided for the offence, for a term which may extend to one-fourth; and
(b) if the offence be not committed, to one-eighth,
of the longest term of such imprisonment, or with such fine as is provided for the offence, or
with both.