Database of Legislation

Obstruction of Justice
  • Sectors

    • • Public officials
  • Offending Involves

    • • Physical force/threat/intimidation
  • In Order To

    • • Interfere with the exercise of official duties by a justice or law enforcement official
 Chapter X
 Section 189-190

UNTOC Articles

  • Organized Crime Convention

  • Article 23: Criminalization of obstruction of justice
  • Trafficking in Persons Protocol

  • Smuggling of Migrants Protocol

  • Firearms Protocol

     

    Original Text

    Threat of injury to a public servant

    189. 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 for a term which may extend to two years or with fine or with both.

    Threat of injury to induce any person to refrain from applying for protection to a public servant

    190. Whoever holds out any threat of injury to any person for the purpose of inducing that person to refrain or desist from making a legal application, for protection against any injury, to any public servant legally empowered as such to give such protection or to cause such protection to be given, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with fine or with both.

     
     
     

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