Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003) – Section 224

This section covers threat of injury to public servant in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).

Threat of injury to public servant. 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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Section 106 in THE BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023 – BNS

What was the old IPC code for Section 224 of BNS 2023?

In the Indian Penal Code, threat of injury to public servant was covered in S. 189.

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