Threat of injury to induce person to refrain from applying for protection to public servant
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Summary
Threatening someone to stop them from making a legal application for protection in relation to a public servant is an offence. It applies when the threat is meant to prevent a person from seeking protection against injury to a public servant or to stop that protection being given. Punishment: up to one year imprisonment, or fine, or both.
Example
Pria is threatened by a neighbour not to go to the police inspector for protection after repeated harassment. Since the threat was intended to stop her from applying for protection to a public servant, the neighbour can be punished with up to one year imprisonment, or a fine, or both.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhoever 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 imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.
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