BNS 224 — Threat of injury to public servant.

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Statutory text

224. 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.
Threat of injury to induce person to refrain from applying for
protection to public servant.

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