Quick Navigation
Section 38 - Indian Penal Code, 1860
Indian Penal Code, 1860
38. Persons concerned in criminal act may be guilty of different offences
Where several persons are engaged or concerned in the commission of a criminal act, they may be guilty of different offences by means of that act.
Illustration
A attacks Z under such circumstances of grave provocation that his killing of Z would be only culpable homicide not amounting to murder B, having ill-will towards Z and intending to kill him, and not having been subject to the provocation, assists A in killing Z. Here, though A and B are both engaged in causing Z's death, B is guilty of murder, and A is guilty only of culpable homicide.
Related Sections
- Section 171F: Punishment for undue influence or personation at an election
- Section 503: Criminal intimidation
- Section 172: Absconding to avoid service of summons or other proceeding
- Section 359: Kidnapping
- Section 115: Abetment of offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life-if offence not committed
Related Acts
- Commission for Air Quality Management in National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas Act, 2021
- National Sports University Act, 2018
- Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2015
- National Commission for Backward Classes (Repeal) Act, 2018
- National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research (Amendment) Act, 2017
* Only for reference.