Section 198 in THE BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023 – BNS

CHAPTER XII
OF OFFENCES BY OR RELATING TO PUBLIC SERVANTS

Public servant disobeying law, with intent to cause injury to any person.

198. 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, 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.