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Abetment of the doing of a thing

107.—(1) A person abets the doing of a thing who —

(a)	instigates any person to do that thing;
(b)	engages with one or more other person or persons in any conspiracy for the doing of that thing, if an act or illegal omission takes place in pursuance of that conspiracy, and in order to the doing of that thing; or
(c)	intentionally aids, by any act or illegal omission, the doing of that thing. [Act 15 of 2019 wef 01/01/2020]

(2) A person may abet the doing of a thing despite the existence of facts of which he is unaware which make the doing of the thing impossible.

Explanation 1.—A person who, by intentional misrepresentation, or by intentional concealment of a material fact which he is bound to disclose, voluntarily causes or procures, or attempts to cause or procure, a thing to be done, is said to instigate the doing of that thing.

Illustration

A, a public officer, is authorised by a warrant from a court of justice to apprehend Z. B, knowing that fact and also that C is not Z, intentionally represents to A that C is Z, and thereby intentionally causes A to apprehend C. Here B abets by instigation the apprehension of C.

Explanation 2.—Whoever, either prior to or at the time of the commission of an act, does anything in order to facilitate the commission of that act, and thereby facilitates the commission thereof, is said to aid the doing of that act.

[Indian PC 1860, s. 107]

[Act 15 of 2019 wef 01/01/2020]

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