Section 123 - Public officer disobeying direction of law with intent to cause injury or to save person from punishment or property from forfeiture.

Whoever being a public officer knowingly disobeys a direction of the law as to the way in which he is to conduct himself as such public officer intending thereby or knowing himself to be likely thereby-

(a) to cause injury to a person or to the public; or

(b) to save a person from legal punishment or to subject him to a less punishment than that to which he is liable or to delay the imposition on any person of a legal punishment; or

(c) to save a property from forfeiture or from a seizure or charge to which it is liable by law or to delay the forfeiture or seizure of any property or the imposition or enforcement of a charge on a property, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or with fine or with both.