CHAPTER XIII OF CONTEMPTS OF THE LAWFUL AUTHORITY OF PUBLIC SERVANTS

Section 222: Omission to assist public servant when bound by law to give assistance

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Whoever, being bound by law to render or furnish assistance to any public servant in the execution of his public duty, intentionally omits to give such assistance,—

(a) shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to two thousand and five hundred rupees, or with both;

(b) and where such assistance be demanded of him by a public servant legally competent to make such demand for the purposes of executing any process lawfully issued by a Court or of preventing the commission of an offence, or suppressing a riot, or affray, or of apprehending a person charged with or guilty of an offence, or of having escaped from lawful custody, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, or with both.

Corresponding IPC provision

As given in the correspondence table of the National Crime Records Bureau (Ministry of Home Affairs). Read both texts before relying on it. NCRB table

222	187. Omission to assist public servant when bound by law to give assistance.

Questions on this section

3 questions in 16 of our papers cite Section 222. Try these from the free papers:

1. Consider the following statements regarding searches under Chapter VII of the BNSS: 1. Before making a search, the officer shall call upon two or more independent and respectable inhabitants of the locality, or of any other locality if none from that locality is available or willing, to attend and witness the search. 2. Every person who witnesses such a search must attend the Court as a witness of the search. 3. A person who, without reasonable cause, refuses to attend and witness a search when called upon by an order in writing is deemed to have committed an offence under Section 222 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. 4. The occupant of the place searched, or some person on his behalf, shall be permitted to attend during the search. Which of the statements given above are correct?
2. Under Section 222 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, a person bound by law to assist a public servant, who intentionally omits to give that assistance when it is demanded by a competent public servant for the purpose of suppressing a riot, is punishable with

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