CONTEMPTS OF THE LAWFUL AUTHORITY OF PUBLIC SERVANTS. 165 Public servant obtaining any valuable thing, ditto without consideration, from a person concerned in any proceeding or business transacted by such public servant. ditto ditto 166 Public servant disobeying a direction of the law with intent to cause injury to any person. ditto ditto ditto 167 Public servant framing an incorrect document with intent to cause injury. ditto ditto ditto 168 Public servant unlawfully engaging in trade. ditto ditto ditto 169 Public servant unlawfully buying or bidding for property. ditto ditto ditto 171 Wearing garb or carrying token used by ditto public servant with fraudulent intent. Simple imprisonment for 2 years, Magistrate of or fine, or both. CHAPTER X.-CONTEMPTS OF THE LAWFUL AUTHORITY OF PUBLIC SERVANTS. 172 Absconding to avoid service of summons or Shall not arrest Summons. Bailable. or both. If summons or notice require attendance ditto in person, &c., in a Court of Justice. ditto ditto 173 Preventing the service or the affixing of any summons or notice, or the removal of it when it has been affixed, or preventing a proclamation. ditto ditto ditto Simple imprisonment for 1 Magistrate of month, or fine of 500 rupees, the 1st or both. 2nd class. L L ix X CONTEMPTS OF THE LAWFUL AUTHORITY OF PUBLIC SERVANTS. CHAPTER X.--CONTEMPTS OF THE LAWFUL AUTHORITY OF PUBLIC SERVANTS-continued. 175 Intentionally omitting to produce a document to a public servant by a person legally bound to produce or deliver such document. 17 6 Intentionally omitting to give notice or Simple imprisonment for 6 Any months, or fine of 1,000 rupees, Simple imprisonment for 1 ditto Simple imprisonment for 6 ditto Simple imprisonment for 1 Court in which month, or fine of 500 rupees, committed, subject to the provisions of Chap. XXXII of this Code, or if not com- Court, a Magis- or 2nd class. 177 Knowingly furnishing false information to a public servant. 178 Refusing oath when duly required to take ditto oath by a public servant. CONTEMPTS OF THE LAWFUL AUTHORITY OF PUBLIC SERVANTS. xi 179 Being legally bound to state truth, and ditto refusing to answer questions. 180 Refusing to sign a statement made to a ditto public servant when legally required to do so. 181 Knowingly stating to a public servant on oath as true that which is false. 182 Giving false information to a public servant in order to cause him to use his lawful power to the injury or annoyance of any person. 183 Resistance to the taking of property by ditto the lawful authority of a public servant. 184 Obstructing sale of property offered for ditto sale by authority of a public servant. CHAPTER X.-CONTEMPTS OF THE LAWFUL AUTHORITY OF PUBLIC SERVANTS-continued. 1 2 3 6 7 Section. 4 5 Offence. Whether the Police may arrest without warrant or not. warrant or a summons shall Whether bailordinarily issue able or not. in the first instance. not without warrant. arrest Summons. Bailable. xii CONTEMPTS OF THE LAWFUL AUTHORITY OF PUBLIC SERVANTS. 185 Bidding by a person under a legal incapa-Shall city to purchase it for property at a lawfully authorized sale, or bidding without intending to perform the obligations incurred thereby. 187 Omission to assist public servant when ditto bound by law to give such assistance. ditto ditto Simple imprisonment for 1 ditto 188 Disobedience to an order lawfully promul- ditto gated by a public servant, if such disobedience causes obstruction or annoyance or injury to persons lawfully employed. ditto ditto Simple Simple imprisonment for 61 months, or fine of 500 rupees, or both. imprisonment for 1 month, or fine of 200 rupees, or both. 189 Threatening a public servant with injury ditto to him, or one in whom he is interested, ditto ditto 190 Threatening any person to induce him to ditto refrain from making a legal application ditto ditto for protection from injury. FALSE EVIDENCE AND OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE. xiii intent to cause any person to be convicted of a capital offence. If innocent person be thereby convicted and ditto executed. ditto CHAPTER XI.-FALSE EVIDENCE AND OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE. 193 Giving or fabricating false evidence in a Shall not arrest Warrant. 195 Giving or fabricating false evidence with ditto intent to procure conviction of an offence punishable with transportation, or imprisonment for more than seven years. ditto ditto The same as for the offence. ditto 196 Using in a judicial proceeding evidence known to be false or fabricated. ditto ditto According as The same as for giving or fabri-Court of Ses the offence of cating false evidence. giving such evidence is 197 Knowingly issuing or signing a false certificate relating to any fact of which such certificate is by law admissible in evidence 198 Using as a true certificate one known to be false in a material point. ditto ditto ditto ditto 199 False statement made in any declaration ditto which is by law received as evidence. to be false. 201 Causing disappearance of evidence of an offence committed, or giving false information touching it to screen the offender, if a capital offence. |