The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

§267 — Intentional insult or interruption to public servant sitting in judicial proceeding

Whoever, intentionally offers any insult, or causes any interruption to any public servant, while such public servant is sitting in any stage of a judicial proceeding, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, or with both.

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Old lawIPC §228Intentional insult or interruption to public servant sitting in judicial proceeding New lawBNS §267Intentional insult or interruption to public servant sitting in judicial proceeding

IPC §228 → BNS §267 per the official NCRB Sankalan table. Marked "(Change)" — substance modified; compare texts.

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Official text: Gazette of India via MHA (official) ↗

Official Gazette text: The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023), English PDF as hosted by Ministry of Home Affairs (mha.gov.in, file 250883_english_01042024.pdf; canonical mirror indiacode.nic.in bitstream a202345.pdf). Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -layout and @nexlex/ingest gazette-pdf parser on 2026-07-14. Automated parse; structural validation + spot verification of sections 1, 63, 103, 302, 358; full clause-level proofread pending.

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