Section 24
Penalty for abetment.
The Immigration and Foreigners Act, 2025
About this Act
An Act to confer upon the Central Government certain powers to provide for requirement of passports or other travel documents in respect of persons entering into and exiting from India and for regulating matters related to foreigners including requirement of visa and registration and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
(1) Whoever abets any offence punishable under sections 21 or 22 or 23 shall, if the act abetted is committed in consequence of the abetment, be punishable with the same punishment as provided for those offences.
(2) For the purposes of this section,—
(i) an act or offence is said to be committed in consequence of the abetment, when it is committed in consequence of the instigation, or in pursuance of the conspiracy, or with the aid which constitutes the offence;
(ii) the expression “abetment” shall have the same meaning as assigned to it under section 45 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023).
(2) For the purposes of this section,—
(i) an act or offence is said to be committed in consequence of the abetment, when it is committed in consequence of the instigation, or in pursuance of the conspiracy, or with the aid which constitutes the offence;
(ii) the expression “abetment” shall have the same meaning as assigned to it under section 45 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023).