Offences relating to public servants

A talathi refuses to register a mutation although the law says he must. A police officer will not record your complaint about an assault. A stranger flashes a fake inspector's badge and walks into a shop. Each of these is an offence, but by different people: the first two by a public servant who betrays a duty, the third by an outsider who borrows a public servant's authority. Chapter XII of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita covers both sides.

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Chapter XII of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 (ss.198–205, the old Code's provisions at ss.166–171) punishes public servants who disobey the law to injure someone, frame incorrect documents, trade or buy property they are barred from, and punishes outsiders who personate a public servant or wear the garb of one.

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