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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 213: Refusing oath or affirmation when duly required by public servant to make it
- Section 226: Attempt to commit suicide to compel or restrain exercise of lawful power
- Section 236: False Statement made in declaration which is by law receivable as evidence
- Section 145: Habitual dealing in slaves
- Section 181: Making or Possessing instruments or materials for forging or counterfeiting coin, Government stamp, currency-notes or bank-notes
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