Nigerian Penal Code Act

Section 125 - Public officer in judicial proceeding acting contrary to law.

Whoever being a public officer knowing that he is likely to cause injury to a person or intending unlawfully to give a person an advantage makes or pronounces in any stage of a judicial proceeding any report, order, judgment or decision which he knows to be contrary to law, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years or with fine or with both.

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