CHAPTER 13 (OF CONTEMPTS OF THE LAWFUL AUTHORITY OF PUBLIC SERVANTS)

Find all the sections of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 under CHAPTER XIII (OF CONTEMPTS OF THE LAWFUL AUTHORITY OF PUBLIC SERVANTS)

Section 226: Attempt to commit suicide to compel or restraint exercise of lawful power.

Whoever attempts to commit suicide with the intent to compel or restrain any public servant from discharging his official duty shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with fine or with both or with community service. Classification of Offence as per Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS)

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Section 225: Threat of injury to induce person to refrain from applying for protection to public servant.

Whoever holds out any threat of injury to any person for the purpose of inducing that person to refrain or desist from making a legal application for protection against any injury to any public servant legally empowered as such to give such protection, or to cause such protection to be given, shall be punished with

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Section 223: Disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant.

Whoever, knowing that, by an order promulgated by a public servant lawfully empowered to promulgate such order, he is directed to abstain from a certain act, or to take certain order with certain property in his possession or under his management, disobeyssuch direction,–– (a) shall, if such disobedience causes or tends to cause obstruction, annoyance

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Section 222: Omission to assist public servant when bound by law to give assistance.

Whoever, being bound by law to render or furnish assistance to any public servant in the execution of his public duty, intentionally omits to give such assistance,–– (a) shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to two thousand five hundred rupees,

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Section 221: Obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions.

Whoever voluntarily obstructs any public servant in the discharge of his public functions, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to two thousand five hundred rupees, or with both. Classification of Offence as per Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS)

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Section 220: Illegal purchase or bid for property offered for sale by authority of public servant.

Whoever, at any sale of property held by the lawful authority of a public servant, as such, purchases or bids for any property on account of any person, whether himself or any other, whom he knows to be under a legal incapacity to purchase that property at that sale, or bids for such property not

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Section 219: Obstructing sale of property offered for sale by authority of public servant.

Whoever intentionally obstructs any sale of property offered for sale by the lawful authority of any public servant, as such, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which mayextend to five thousand rupees, or with both. Classification of Offence as per Bharatiya

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Section 218: Resistance to the taking of property by the lawful authority of a public servant.

Whoever offers any resistance to the taking of any property by the lawful authority of any public servant, knowing or having reason to believe that he is such public servant, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to ten

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Section 217: False information, with intent to cause public servant to use his lawful power to the injury of another person.

Whoever gives to any public servant any information which he knows or believes to be false, intending thereby to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby cause, such public servant— (a) to do or omit anything which such public servant ought not to do or omit if the true state of

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