INDIAN PENAL CODE, 1860
BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023
213. Taking gift, etc., to screen an offender from punishment
250. Taking gift, etc., to screen an offender from punishment.
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INDIAN PENAL CODE, 1860
213. Taking gift, etc., to screen an offender from punishment--Whoever
accepts or attempts to obtain, or agrees to accept, any gratification
for himself or any other person, or any restitution of property to
himself or any other person, in consideration of his concealing an
offence or of his screening any person from legal punishment for any
offence, or of his not proceeding against any person for the purpose
of bringing him to legal punishment,
if a capital offence;
if a capital offence;-shall, if the offence is punishable with
death, be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term
which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine;
if punishable with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment.
if punishable with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment.--
and if the offence is punishable with 3*[imprisonment for life], or
with imprisonment which may extend to ten years, shall be punished
with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to
three years, and shall also be liable to fine;
and if the offence is punishable with imprisonment not extending
to ten years, shall be punished with imprisonment of the description
provided for the offence for a term which may extend to one fourth
part of the longest term of imprisonment provided for the offence, or
with fine, or with both.
Repealed / historical reference India Code — IPC 1860
BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023
250. Taking gift, etc., to screen an offender from punishment.—Whoever accepts or attempts to
obtain, or agrees to accept, any gratification for himself or any other person, or any restitution of property
to himself or any other person, in consideration of his concealing an offence or of his screening any
person from legal punishment for any offence, or of his not proceeding against any person for the purpose
of bringing him to legal punishment shall,—
(a) if the offence is punishable with death, be punished with imprisonment of either description
for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine;
(b) if the offence is punishable with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment which may
extend to ten years, be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend
to three years, and shall also be liable to fine;
(c) if the offence is punishable with imprisonment not extending to ten years, be punished with
imprisonment of the description provided for the offence for a term which may extend to one-fourth
part of the longest term of imprisonment provided for the offence, or with fine, or with both.
Current law India Code — BNS 2023