No 2 Penal Code - IDP SriLanka

http://www.lawnet.lk/process.php?st=2001Y1V19C&hword=''&path=5Public servantdisobeying adirection of thelaw with intent tocause injury toany person or theGovernment.Public servantframing anincorrectdocument withintent to causeinjury.Fraudulent ormalicious infractionof duty by publicservant in Posts ortelecommunicationsDepartments.Misconduct bypublic servant inPostsTelecommunicationsDepartments.Fraud by publicservant in Posts orTelecommunicationsDepartments.A is a public servant. B, A's wife, receives a present as a motivefor soliciting A to give an office to a particular person, A abets herdoing so. B is punishable with imprisonment for a term notexceeding one year, or with fine, or with both. A is punishable withimprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, or withfine, or with both.162. Whoever, being a public servant, knowingly disobeys any direction of the law as tothe way in which he is to conduct himself as such public servant, intending to cause orknowing it to be likely that he will, by such disobedience, cause injury to any person or tothe Government, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extendto one year, or with fine, or with both.IllustrationA, being" an officer directed by law to lake property in execution,in order to satisfy a decree pronounced in Z's favour by a Court ofJustice knowingly disobeys that direction of law. with theknowledge that he is likely thereby to cause injury to Z. A hascommitted the offence defined in this section.163. Whoever, being a public servant, and being, as such public servant, charged with thepreparation or translation of any document, frames or translates that document in a mannerwhich he knows or believes to be incorrect, intending thereby to cause, or knowing it to belikely that he may thereby cause, injury to any person, shall be punished with imprisonmentof either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.164 Whoever, being a public servant, employed in the Posts or TelecommunicationsDepartment of Government, fraudulently or maliciously secretes, makes away with,alters, or omits to transmit any message which may have been lawfully delivered to himfor transmission, or fraudulently or maliciously discloses to any person not authorized toreceive the same any message received by him in the course of his employment asaforesaid, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description, which may extend toa term of two years, or with fine, or with both.165. Whoever, being a public servant, employed in the Posts or TelecommunicationsDepartment of Government, by drunkenness, carelessness, or other misconduct,endangers or delays the transmission of any message, letter, or postal packet, shall bepunished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to threemonths or with fine which may extend to fifty rupees, or with both.166. Whoever, being a public servant, employed in the Posts or TelecommunicationsDepartment of Government, transmits by telegraph any message upon which theprescribed charge has not been paid, with intent thereby to defraud, shall be punishedwith imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or withfine, or with both.http://www.lawnet.lk/process.php?st=2001Y1V19C&hword=''&path=5 (38 of 124)9/30/2008 2:10:41 PM