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Section 189 - Indian Penal Code, 1860
Indian Penal Code, 1860
189. Threat of injury to public servant
Whoever holds out any threat of injury to any public servant, or to any person in whom he believes that public servant to be interested, for the purpose of inducing that public servant to do any act, or to forbear or delay to do any act, connected with the exercise of the public functions of such public servant, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
Related Sections
- Section 254: Delivery of coin as genuine, which, when first possessed, the deliverer did not know to be altered
- Section 333: Voluntarily causing grievous hurt to deter public servant from his duty
- Section 265: Fraudulent use of false weight or measure
- Section 173: Preventing service of summons or other proceeding, or preventing publication thereof
- Section 90: Consent known to be given under fear or misconception
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