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State of Tripura - Section

Section 88 in Tripura Police Act, 2007

88. Dereliction of duty by a police officer.

(1)Whoever, being a police officer :
(a)will fully breaches or neglects to follow any legal provision, procedure, rules, regulations applicable to members of the Police Service ; or
(b)without lawful reason, fails to register a First Information Report as required by Section 154 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973; or
(c)is found in a state of intoxication, while on duty ; or
(d)malingers or feigns illness or injury or voluntarily causes hurt to himself with a view to evading duty ; or
(e)acts in any other manner unbecoming or a police officer ;
shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with a fine or both.
(2)Whoever, being a police officer,
(a)is guilty of cowardice ; or
(b)abdicates duties, or withdraws from duties, or remains absent without authorization form duty for more than 21 days ; or
(c)uses criminal force against another police officer, or indulges in gross in subordination ; or
(d)is guilty of sexual harassment in the course of duty, whether towards other police officer of any member of the public ;
shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with a fine or both.