Indian Penal Code : Public servant disobeying direction of law with intent to save personfrom

Indian Penal Code,1860

Act No : 45

Section : Public servant disobeying direction of law with intent to save personfrom punishment or property from forfeiture.

217. Public servant disobeying direction of law with intent tosave person from punishment or property from forfeiture.--Whoever,being a public servant, knowingly disobeys any direction of the law asto the way in which he is to conduct himself as such public servant,intending thereby to save, or knowing it to be likely that he willthereby save, any person from legal punishment, or subject him to aless punishment than that to which he is liable, or with intent tosave, or knowing that he is likely thereby to save, any property fromforfeiture or any charge to which it is liable by law, shall bepunished with imprisonment of either description for a term which mayextend to two years, or with fine, or with both.