Whoever, except as hereinafter excepted,2020Whoever2020 knowing or having reason to believe that an officer or a serviceman in the Singapore Armed Forces or any visiting forces lawfully present in Singapore has deserted, harbours such officer or serviceman with the intention of preventing the officer or serviceman from being apprehended,2020 shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 2 years, or with fine, or with both.
Section history
Section 136 — Harbouring a deserter
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Exception.—This provision does not extend to the case in which the harbour is given by a wife to her husband.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 136]