BNS Section 223: Disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant
Equivalent Legacy Law: IPC Section 188
Procedural Classification Summary
Disobedience to an order
Bailable: Bailable (Bail is a legal right — granted at police station)
Cognizable: Cognizable (Police can arrest without warrant)
Triable by: Any Magistrate
Punishment: Simple imprisonment forlawfully promulgated by a6 months, or fine of public servant, if such2,500 rupees, or both. disobedience causes obstruction, annoyance or injury to persons lawfully employed
If such disobedience causes
Bailable: Bailable (Bail is a legal right — granted at police station)
Cognizable: Cognizable (Police can arrest without warrant)
Triable by: Any Magistrate
Punishment: Imprisonment for 1 year,danger to human life, healthor fine of 5,000 rupees, or safety, or causes or tends or both. to cause a riot or affray
Official Legal Provision / Summary
The section is reorganised in the form of clauses (a) and (b). In clause (a), the upper limit of imprisonment is increased from one month to six months, and the fine is increased from two hundred to two thousand and five hundred rupees. In clause (b), the limit of imprisonment is increased from six months to one year, and the fine from one thousand rupees to five thousand rupees.