INDIAN PENAL CODE, 1860
BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023
185. Illegal purchase or bid for property offered for sale by authority of
220. Illegal purchase or bid for property offered for sale by authority of public servant.
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INDIAN PENAL CODE, 1860
Illegal purchase or bid for property offered for sale by authority of
public servant.
185. Illegal purchase or bid for property offered for sale by
authority of public servant.--Whoever, at any sale of property held by
the lawful authority of a public servant, as such, purchases or bids
for any property on account of any person, whether himself or any
other, whom he knows to be under a legal incapacity to purchase that
property at that sale, or bids for such property not intending to
perform the obligations under which he lays himself by such bidding,
shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term
which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to two
hundred rupees, or with both.
Repealed / historical reference India Code — IPC 1860
BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023
220. Illegal purchase or bid for property offered for sale by authority of public servant.—
Whoever, at any sale of property held by the lawful authority of a public servant, as such, purchases or
bids for any property on account of any person, whether himself or any other, whom he knows to be
under a legal incapacity to purchase that property at that sale, or bids for such property not intending to
perform the obligations under which he lays himself by such bidding, shall be punished with
imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may
extend to two hundred rupees, or with both.
Current law India Code — BNS 2023