CHAPTER 14 (OF FALSE EVIDENCE AND OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE)

Find all the sections of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 under CHAPTER XIV (OF FALSE EVIDENCE AND OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE)

Section 267: Intentional insult or interruption to public servant sitting in judicial proceeding.

Whoever intentionally offers any insult, or causes any interruption to any public servant, while such public servant is sitting in any stage of a judicial proceeding, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, or with both. Classification

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Section 265: Resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension or escape or rescue in cases not otherwise provided for.

Whoever, in any case not provided for in section 260 or section 261 or in any other law for the time being in force, intentionally offers any resistance or illegal obstruction to the lawful apprehension of himself or of any other person, or escapes or attempts to escape from any custody in which he is

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Section 264: Omission to apprehend, or sufferance of escape, on part of public servant, in cases not otherwise, provided for.

Whoever, being a public servant legally bound as such public servant to apprehend, or to keep in confinement, any person in any case not provided for in section 257, section 258 or section 259, or in any other law for the time being in force, omits to apprehend that person or suffers him to escape

Section 264: Omission to apprehend, or sufferance of escape, on part of public servant, in cases not otherwise, provided for. Read More »

Section 263: Resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension of another person.

Whoever intentionally offers any resistance or illegal obstruction to the lawful apprehension of any other person for an offence, or rescues or attempts to rescue any other person from any custody in which that person is lawfully detained for an offence,— (a) shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may

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Section 262: Resistance or obstruction by a person to his lawful apprehension.

Whoever intentionally offers any resistance or illegal obstruction to the lawful apprehension of himself for any offence with which he is charged or of which he has been convicted, or escapes or attempts to escape from any custody in which he is lawfully detained for any such offence, shall be punished with imprisonment of either

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Section 261: Escape from confinement or custody negligently suffered by public servant.

Whoever, being a public servant legally bound as such public servant to keep in confinement any person charged with or convicted of any offence or lawfully committed to custody, negligently suffers such person to escape from confinement, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine,

Section 261: Escape from confinement or custody negligently suffered by public servant. Read More »

Section 260: Intentional omission to apprehend on the part of public servant bound to apprehend person under sentence or lawfully committed.

Whoever, being a public servant, legally bound as such public servant to apprehend or to keep in confinement any person under sentence of a Court for any offence or lawfully committed to custody, intentionally omits to apprehend such person, or intentionally suffers such person to escape or intentionally aids such person in escaping or attempting

Section 260: Intentional omission to apprehend on the part of public servant bound to apprehend person under sentence or lawfully committed. Read More »

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