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\u2019s favour by a Court, 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BNS Section 198.\u00a0\u00a0 Public servant disobeying law, with intent to cause injury to any person. Whoever, being apublic servant, knowingly disobeys any direction of the law as to the way in which he is to conducthimself as such public servant, intending to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will by suchdisobedience, cause […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/expertvakil.com\/indiankanoon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/the-bharatiya-nyaya-sanhita-bns-section-198.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"BNS Section 198","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[110,119,104,109,120,105,118,108,111,112,117,121,122,113,114,115],"class_list":["post-2676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bharatiya-nyaya-sanhita-bns","tag-bharatiya-nyaya-sanhita","tag-bharatiya-nyaya-sanhita-in-english","tag-bns","tag-bns-2023","tag-bns-english","tag-bns-section","tag-bns-section-in-english","tag-bns-sections-list","tag-expert-vakil","tag-expertvakil","tag-expertvakil-bns","tag-indian-kanoon","tag-indiankanoon","tag-ishan-tathagat","tag-ishantathagat","tag-new-ipc"],"yoast_head":"\n