What Is Concealment Of Conspiracy To Commit Offence?

IPC SECTION 118-INDIAN PENAL CODE-"CONCEALING DESIGN TO COMMIT OFFENCE PUNISHABLE WITH DEATH OR IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE"

Whoever intending to facilitate or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby facilitate the commission of an offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life;

voluntarily conceals, by any act or illegal omission, the existence of a design to commit such offence or makes any representation which he knows to be false respecting such design,

If offence be committed; if offence be not committed – shall, if that offence be committed, be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, or, if the offence be not committed, with imprisonment of either description, for a term which may extend to three years; and in either case shall also be liable to fine.

Explanation 

Through this section, we can understand that if any person intentionally tries to facilitate an offence, meaning when a person tries to create a false scenario to hide the offence or create a scenario to mislead the officer from taking action on the committing of the offence. In this type of offence, the offender would be imprisoned and will be fined also according to the offence. 

Illustration-

D knows that the action of robbery is going to happen in the house of H, but D falsely tries to mislead the magistrate that the robbery is going to happen at the house of C, so that robbery at the house of H can be done without any issues D had the intention to facilitate the commission of offence, in this situation D is would be held guilty for the commission of the offence and the punishments that it holds.