BNS Section 224 — Threat of injury to public servant
Section 224 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Threat of injury to public servant”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
224. 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. ¶
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