Threat of injury to public servant
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Summary
Threatening to injure a public servant, or someone the offender believes the servant is interested in, to induce the servant to do, delay, or refrain from any act connected with their public duties is an offence. Punishment may be imprisonment for up to two years, or a fine, or both. It applies whenever the threat is meant to influence official functions.
Example
Rohan tells a traffic constable he will harm the constable's sister unless the constable stops issuing a challan, intending to prevent the officer from doing his duty. That threat is an offence; Rohan can be punished with up to two years imprisonment, or a fine, or both.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhoever 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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