Section 198.   Public servant disobeying law, with intent to cause injury to any person.

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 to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will by such
disobedience, cause injury to any person, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which
may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.
Illustration.
A, being an officer directed by law to take property in execution, in order to satisfy a decree
pronounced in Z’s favour by a Court, knowingly disobeys that direction of law, with the knowledge that
he is likely thereby to cause injury to Z. A has committed the offence defined in this section.