IPC Section 214 - Offering gift or restoration of property in consideration of screening offender

214. Offering gift or restoration of property in consideration of screening offender. Whoever

gives or causes, or offers or agrees to give or cause, any gratification to any person, or 4[restores or causes

the restoration of] any property to any person, in co nsideration of that person's concealing an offence, or

of his screening any person from legal punishment for any offence, or of his not proceeding against any

person for the purpose of bringing him to legal punishment,

if a capital offence. --shall, if the o ffence is punishable with death, be punished with imprisonment

of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine;

if punishable with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment.--and if the offence is punishable

with 1[imprisonment for life] or with imprisonment which may extend to ten years, shall be punished with

imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to

fine;

and if the offence is punishable with imprisonment not extending to ten years, shall be punished with

imprisonment of the description provided for the offence for a term which may extend to one -fourth part

of the longest term of imprisonment provided for the offence, or with fine, or with both.

5[Exception.--The provisions of sections 213 and 214 do not extend to any case in which the offen ce

may lawfully be compounded.]

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