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Section 198 - The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Chapter XII
Of Offences by or Relating to Public Servants
198. Public servant disobeying law, with intent to cause injury to any person.
Whoever, being a public servant, knowingly disobeys any direction of the law as to the way in which he is to conduct himself as such public servant, intending to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will by such disobedience, cause injury to any person, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.
Illustration.
A, being an officer directed by law to take property in execution, in order to satisfy a decree pronounced in Z's favour by a Court, knowingly disobeys that direction of law, with the knowledge that he is likely thereby to cause injury to Z. A has committed the offence defined in this section.
Related Sections
- Section 153: Waging war against Government of any foreign State at peace with Government of India
- Section 63: Rape
- Section 299: Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs
- Section 119: Voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal act
- Section 83: Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage
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