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State of Assam - Section

Section 98 in The Assam Police Act, 2007

98. Dereliction of duty by a police officer –

Whoever, being a police officer,-
(a)willfully breaches or neglects to follow any legal provision, procedure, rules, regulation applicable to members of the Police Service; or
(b)without lawful reason, fails to register a First Information Reports 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)uses criminal force against another police officer, or indulges in gross insubordination; shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with a fine which may extend upto two thousand rupees or with both