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Indian Penal Code, 1860

Section 120B: Punishment of criminal conspiracy

Repealed. Repealed from 1 July 2024. Use it for offences committed before repeal and other liabilities, investigations or proceedings preserved by BNS section 358; do not use it as the current general penal code.

Chapter VA — Criminal Conspiracy

120B. (1) Whoever is a party to a criminal conspiracy to commit an offence punishable with death, imprisonment for life] or rigorous imprisonment for a term of two years or upwards, shall, where no express provision is made in this Code for the punishment of such a conspiracy, be punished in the same manner as if he had abetted such offence.

(2) Whoever is a party to a criminal conspiracy other than a criminal conspiracy to commit an offence punishable as aforesaid shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months, or with fine or with both.]

Now in the new law

BNS section 61 — Criminal conspiracy.

Source: official text of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.