IPC 189 — Threat of injury to public servant

Indian Penal Code, 1860

Statutory text

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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