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56 115 Bribe taking and extortion by police officer—Any police officer who in connection with his duties, either directly or indirectly, by threat or by coercion demands or accepts or attempts to accept any bribe or unauthorized favour or reward shall on conviction be punished with imprisonment for a period which may extend to seven years or with fine not exceeding his salary for twelve months or with both.

116 Vexations arrest, search, seizure, violence, etc—Whoever, being a police officer,—
 * (a) enters into or conducts unnecessary searches or causes to be searched without lawful authority of reasons in any building, vessel, tent on place for causing annoyance, or
 * (b) seizes the property of any person or detains a person in custody or conducts search or arrests any person illegally for causing annoyance and without reasonable cause, or
 * (c) deliberately subjects, any person in custody or with whom he comes into contact in the course of his duties, to torture or any kind of inhuman or unlawful personal violence or grave misconduct, or
 * (d) deliberately, knowingly and maliciously with intent to implicate an innocent person in a criminal offence records a false statement or make a forged document or raises a false allegation of attack on the police, or
 * (e) deliberately and directly aids or abets for the commission of an offence which, as a police officer, he is bound to prevent,

shall on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term, which may extend to three years or fine or with both.

Provided that nothing in this section shall preclude any court from punishing any police officer, under any other law for the time being in force, the same matter is an offence under the provisions of that law.

117 Penalty for interfering in the functions of the police—Whoever,—
 * (a) abets any member of the police force not to do his duties or to commit violation of discipline, or
 * (b) unlawfully undertake any function or power of police, or
 * (c) personates as a police officer other than innocently for the purposes of entertainment, or
 * (d) deliberately makes a false statement to a police officer with intent to mislead the police in material particulars in a police investigation or due performance of police duty, or