Section 224: Whoever holds out any threat of injury to any public servant, or to any person Threat of
in whom he believes that public servant to be interested, for the purpose of inducing that injury to
public servant.
public servant to do any act, or to forbear or delay to do any act, connected with the
exercise of the public functions of such public servant, shall be punished with imprisonment
of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.