Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Section 48, BNS: Abetment outside India for offence in India
Section 48 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, in the Act's own words.
What it replaces
Nothing: the official comparison summary marks this provision as new in the BNS, with no equivalent in the Indian Penal Code, 1860. The whole table: IPC to BNS.
The section
48. Abetment outside India for offence in India.
A person abets an offence within the meaning of this Sanhita who, without and beyond India, abets the commission of any act in India which would constitute an offence if committed in India. Illustration. A, in country X, instigates B, to commit a murder in India, A is guilty of abetting murder.The text is India Code's consolidated text as loaded into Pundora's statute corpus on 1 September 2026. A section quoted in a draft checked by Pundora is checked against this text.
Sources
- India Code: Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, section 48 (read 1 September 2026)
- Bureau of Police Research and Development: comparison summary, BNS to IPC (read 1 September 2026)