Pakistan Penal Code (PPC)

PPC § 120 — Concealing design to commit offence punishable with imprisonment

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Statutory text (English)

Whoever,
intending to facilitate or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby facilitate the commission of an
offence punishable with imprisonment,
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 the offence be committed, be
punished with imprisonment of the description provided for the offence, for a term which may extend
to one-four th, and, if the offence be not committed, to one-eighth, of the longest term of such
imprisonment, or with such fine as is provided for the offence, or with both.

Source and verification

Source citation: PPC (Act XLV of 1860) s.120: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE PAKISTAN PENAL CODE' (Act No. XLV of 1860), p. 58, ingested 2026-09-15. Automated transcription from official source (pypdf extraction, audited artifact repair); human admin re-check required before production.

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Date not confirmed: Consolidated current text as published in the official Pakistan Code PDF (p. 58) — reflects all amendments recorded in the official footnotes up to ingest date 2026-09-15. Automated transcription; per-amendment version…

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