Penalty for harbouring offenders

Whoever, knowing or having reason to believe that any person has committed an offence under this Act, harbours or conceals such person or gives any aid or assistance to him, shall be punished with the punishment provided for that offence. Explanation.—For the purposes of this sub-section, 'harbour' includes the supplying of a person with shelter, food, drink, money, clothes, arms, ammunition or means of conveyance, or the assisting of a person in any way to evade apprehension, whether of the same kind as those enumerated in this section or not.