This section covers public servant disobeying law to cause injury in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
CHAPTER XII
OF OFFENCES BY OR RELATING TO PUBLIC SERVANTS
Public servant disobeying law, with intent to cause injury to any person. Whoever, being a public servant, knowingly disobeys any direction of the law as to the way in which he is to conduct himself as such public servant, intending to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will by such disobedience, cause injury to any person, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.
Illustration. A, being an officer directed by law to take property in execution, in order to satisfy a decree pronounced in Z’s favour by a Court, knowingly disobeys that direction of law, with the knowledge that he is likely thereby to cause injury to Z. A has committed the offence defined in this section.
What was the old IPC code for Section 198 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, public servant disobeying law to cause injury was covered in S. 166.