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Penal Code, 1860 (Act No. XLV of 1860).
(b) to use the lawful power of such public servant to the injury or annoyance of
any person,
shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may
extend to six months, or with fine may extend to one thousand taka, or with
both.
Illustrations
(a) A informs a Magistrate that Z, a police officer, subordinate to such Magistrate,
has been guilty of neglect of duty or misconduct knowing such information to be
false, and knowing it to be likely that the information will cause the Magistrate to
dismiss Z. A has committed the offence defined in this section.
(b) A falsely informs a public servant that Z has contraband salt in a secret
place, knowing such information to be false, and knowing that it is likely that the
consequence of the information will be a search of Z's premises, attended with
annoyance to Z. A has committed the offence defined in this section.
(c) A falsely informs a policeman that he has been assaulted and robbed in the
neighborhood of a particular village. He does not mention the name of any
person as one of his assailants, but knows it to be likely that in consequence of
this information the police will make enquiries and institute searches in the village
to the annoyance of the villagers or some of them. A has committed an offence
under this section.
Resistance to the
taking of property by
the lawful authority
of a public servant
183. Whoever offers any resistance to the taking of any property by the lawful
authority of any public servant, knowing or having reason to believe that he is
such public servant, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for
a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one
thousand taka, or with both.
184. Whoever intentionally obstructs any sale of property offered for sale by the
lawful authority of any public servant, as such, shall be punished with
imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one month, or
with fine which may extend to five hundred taka, or with both.
185. Whoever, at any sale of property held by the lawful authority of a public
servant, as such, purchases or bids for any property on account of any person,
whether himself or any other, whom he knows to be under a legal incapacity to
purchase that property at that sale, or bids for such property not intending to
perform the obligations under which he lays himself by such bidding, shall be
punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to
one month, or with fine which may extend to two hundred taka, or with both.
186. Whoever voluntarily obstructs any public servant in the discharge of his
public functions, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a
term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to five
hundred taka, or with both.
Obstructing sale of
property offered for
sale by authority of
public servant
Illegal purchase or
bid for property
offered for sale by
authority of public
servant
Obstructing public
servant in discharge
of public functions
Omission to assist
public servant when
bound by law to give
assistance
187. Whoever, being bound by law to render or furnish assistance to any public
servant in the execution of his public duty, intentionally omits to give such
assistance, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may
extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to two hundred taka, or
with both;
and if such assistance be demanded of him by a public servant legally competent
to make such demand for the purposes of executing any process lawfully issued
by a Court of Justice, or of preventing the commission of an offence, or of
suppressing a riot, or affray, or of apprehending a person charged with or guilty
of an offence, or of having escaped from lawful custody, shall be punished with
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