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 ten thousand
rupees, or with both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BNS Section 218.\u00a0\u00a0 Resistance to taking of property by lawful authority of a public servant. Whoever offersany resistance to the taking of any property by the lawful authority of any public servant, knowing orhaving reason to believe that he is such public servant, shall be punished with imprisonment of eitherdescription for a term which may […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6535,"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-218.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"BNS Section 218","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[110,119,104,109,120,105,118,108,111,112,117,121,122,113,114,115],"class_list":["post-2716","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