Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Certain Persons to be public servant. - (1) Every person entrusted with the duty of supervising or doing invigilation work at any centre where an examination is conducted by the Board, shall for one month prior to the date of commencement of and two months immediately after he closing of, such examination be deemed to be public servant within the meaning of section 21 of the Jammu and Kashmir State Ranbir Penal Code, Samvat, 1989. (2) An assault on, or the use of criminal force to, any person entrusted with the duty of supervising or doing invigilation work at any such centre shall, during the period mentioned in sub-section (1), be deemed to be an obstruction voluntarily caused to a public servant in the discharge of his public functions, punishable under section 186 of the Jammu and Kashmir State Ranbir Penal Code, Samvat 1989 and shall notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, Samvat 1989 be a cognizable offence.