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IPC Section 189 - Threa t of injury to public servant
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Simple language explanation
IPC Section 189 deals with threa t of injury to public servant.
Full official legal text
189. Threa t of injury to public servant. Whoever holds out any threat of injury to any public
servant, or to any person in whom he believes that public servant to be interested, for the purpose of
inducing that public servant to do any act, or to forbear or delay to do any act, connected with the exercise
of the public functions of such public servant, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description
for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
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