Section 52: If the act for which the abettor is liable under section 51 is committed in addition to Abettor when
the act abetted, and constitute a distinct offence, the abettor is liable to punishment for each liable to
cumulative
of the offences. punishment
for act abetted
and for act
done.
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Illustration.
A instigates B to resist by force a distress made by a public servant. B, in consequence,
resists that distress. In offering the resistance, B voluntarily causes grievous hurt to the
officer executing the distress. As B has committed both the offence of resisting the distress,
and the offence of voluntarily causing grievous hurt, B is liable to punishment for both these
offences; and, if A knew that B was likely voluntarily to cause grievous hurt in resisting the
distress, A will also be liable to punishment for each of the offences.