IPC Section 217 — Public servant disobeying direction of law with intent to save person from punishment or property from forfeiture
false evidence and offences against public justice
Criminal
Summary
A public servant who knowingly breaks a legal rule about how they must act in their job, intending to save someone from punishment or get them a lighter punishment, or intending to save property from being taken by law, can be punished with up to two years in prison, a fine, or both.
Official Text
Whoever, being a public servant, knowingly disobeys any direction of the law as to 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 will thereby save, any person from legal punishment, or subject him to a less punishment than that to which he is liable, or with intent to save, or knowing that he is likely thereby to save, any property from forfeiture or any charge to which it is liable by law, 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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