PPC Section 120 | Concealing design to commit offence punishable with imprisonment.

PPC Section 120

Section 120. 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,

if offence be committed; if offence be not committed:

shall, 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, 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.

Offence	Cognizance	Summons	Bail	Punishment	Triable
Concealing a design to commit an offence punishable with imprisonment, if the offence be committed.	May arrests without warrant if arrest for the offence abetted may be made without warrant, but not otherwis	According as a warrant or summons may issue for the offence abetted.	According as the offence concealed is bailable or not.]	Imprisonment extending to a quarter part of the longest term, and of any description, provided for the offence, or fine, or both.	The court by which the offence abetted is triable
If the offence be not committed.	Ditto	Ditto	Bailable]	Imprisonment extending to one‑eighth part of the Ditto. longest term, and of the description, provided for the offence, or fine, or both.	Ditto