BNS Section 198 — Public servant disobeying law, with intent to cause injury to any person
Section 198 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Public servant disobeying law, with intent to cause injury to any person”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
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. ¶
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