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Penal Code, 1860 (Act No. XLV of 1860).
Public servant
disobeying law, with
intent to cause injury
to any person
166. 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 of Justice, 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.
Public servant
framing an incorrect
document with intent
to cause injury
167. Whoever, being a public servant, and being, as such public servant, charged
with the preparation or translation of any document, frames or translates that
document in a manner which he knows or believes to be incorrect, intending
thereby to cause or knowing it to be likely that he may thereby cause injury to
any person, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term
which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.
168. Whoever, being a public servant, and being legally bound as such public
servant not to engage in trade, engages in trade, shall be punished with simple
imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with
both.
Public servant
unlawfully engaging
in trade
Public servant
unlawfully buying or
bidding for property
169. Whoever, being a public servant, and being legally bound as such public
servant, not to purchase or bid for certain property, purchases or bids for that
property, either in his own name or in the name of another, or jointly, or in
shares with others, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which
may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both; and the property, if
purchased, shall be confiscated.
170. Whoever pretends to hold any particular office as a public servant, knowing
that he does not hold such office or falsely personates any other person holding
such office, and in such assumed character does or attempts to do any act under
colour of such office, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description,
for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
Personating a public
servant
Wearing garb or
carrying token used
by public servant
with fraudulent intent
171. Whoever, not belonging to a certain class of public servants, wears any garb
or carries any token resembling any garb or token used by that class of public
servants, with the intention that it may be believed, or with the knowledge that it
is likely to be believed, that he belongs to that class of public servants, shall be
punished with imprisonment of either description, for a term which may extend to
three months, or with fine which may extend to two hundred taka, or with both.
67 CHAPTER IXA
OF OFFENCES RELATING TO ELECTIONS
“Candidate”,
“Electoral right”
defined
171A. For the purposes of this Chapter
(a) "candidate" means a person who has been nominated as a candidate at any
election and includes a person who, when an election is in contemplation, holds
himself out as a prospective candidate thereat; provided that he is subsequently
nominated as a candidate at such election;
(b) "electoral right" means the right of a person to stand, or not to stand as, or
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