NAVJOT ROMANA 06 September 2019
Abhishek Das 09 September 2019
The concept of abetment widens the horizons of criminal law to incorporate these criminal intentions and penalize them even when the person who bought the knife did not actually kill anyone but handed it over to someone else to do it. To explain the concept of abetment, the word ‘abet’ should be given a deep scrutiny. In general use, it means to aid, advance, assist, help and promote.
According to section 115 of ipc : A instigates B to murder Z. The offence is not committed, if B had murdered Z, he would have been subject to the punishment of death or imprisonment for life. Therefore, A is liable to imprisonment upto 7 years and also fine and if hurt be caused to Z in consequence of the abetment he will be liable to imprisonment upto 14 years and also fine.
please click on the following links for explanations and case laws
https://blog.ipleaders.in/abetment-ipc/
Abhishek Das 09 September 2019
The concept of abetment widens the horizons of criminal law to incorporate these criminal intentions and penalize them even when the person who bought the knife did not actually kill anyone but handed it over to someone else to do it. To explain the concept of abetment, the word ‘abet’ should be given a deep scrutiny. In general use, it means to aid, advance, assist, help and promote.
According to section 115 of ipc : A instigates B to murder Z. The offence is not committed, if B had murdered Z, he would have been subject to the punishment of death or imprisonment for life. Therefore, A is liable to imprisonment upto 7 years and also fine and if hurt be caused to Z in consequence of the abetment he will be liable to imprisonment upto 14 years and also fine.
please click on the following links for explanations and case laws
https://blog.ipleaders.in/abetment-ipc/
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