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CHAPTER II GENERAL EXPLANATIONS

Section 14: “Servant of Government”

The Indian Penal Code, 1860 (repealed)

Repealed by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.

1[The words “servant of Government” denote any officer or servant continued, appointed or employed in India by or under the authority of Government.]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs., ibid., for section 14.

Now in the BNS

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

14- “Servant of Government”.Not carried into the new law

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