Section 43

An officer who shall assault, threaten or insult any officer senior to him when such senior officer is on duty or when such assault, threat or in­

sult shall relate to or be consequent upon the discharge of duty by the officer so assaulted, threa-

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tended or insulted shall be liable on conviction before a Magistrate to imprisonment for six months and to a fine of five hundred dollars.

Any person convicted under this

Rule, shall, unless the conviction is reversed on appeal be dismissed from his office and all arrears of pay due to him be forfeited.