Official Secrets Act, 1923
10. Penalty for harboring spies
(1) If any person knowingly harbors any person
whom he knows or has reasonable grounds for supposing to be a person who is
about to commit or who has committed an offence under section 3 or under
section 3 read with section 9 or knowingly permits to meet or assemble in any
premises in his occupation or under his control any such persons, he shall be
guilty of an offence under this section.
(2) It shall be the duty of every person
having harbored any such person as aforesaid, or permitted to meet or assemble
in any premises in his occupation or under his control any such persons as
aforesaid, to give on demand to a Superintendent of Police or other police
officer not below the rank of Inspector empowered by an Inspector-General or
Commissioner of Police in this behalf, any information in his power relating to
any such person or persons, and if any person fails to give any such
information, he shall be guilty of an offence under this section.
(3) A person guilty of an offence under this
section shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to
20[three years], or with fine, or with both.