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Section 110 IPC — Punishment of abetment if person abetted does act with different intention from that of abettor

Indian Penal Code, 1860 · Official PDF page 41

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110. Punishment of abetment if person abetted does act with different intention from that of abettor.--Whoever abets the commission of an offence shall, if the person abetted does the act with a different intention or knowledge from that of the abettor, be punished with the punishment provided for the offence which would have been committed if the act had been done with the intention or knowledge of the abettor and with no other. that purpose. B and C break into the house, and being resisted by Z, one of the inmates, murder Z. Here, if that murder was the probable consequence of the abetment, A is liable to the punishment provided for murder.

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