State Act
Section 98. Dereliction of duty by a police officer
98. Whoever, being a police officer ,- (a) willfully 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) 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