Section 53
Abetment of offences punishable with death and not committed.
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the governance of the Assam Rifles, an Armed Force of the Union for ensuring the security of the borders of India, to carry out Counter Insurgency Operations in the specified areas and to act in aid of civil authorities for the maintenance of the law and order and for matters connected therewith.
Any person subject to this
Act who abets the commission of any of the offences punishable with death under sections 21, 24 and
clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 25 shall, on conviction by an Assam Rifles Court, if that offence,
be not committed in consequence of the abetment, and no express provision is made by this Act for the
punishment of such abetment, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen
years of such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned.