BNS · Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Section 220 — Illegal purchase or bid for property offered for sale by authority of public servant.
Replaces IPC Section 185.
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.
Nearby sections
- 217 False information, with intent to cause public servant to use his lawful power to injury of another person.
- 218 Resistance to taking of property by lawful authority of a public servant.
- 219 Obstructing sale of property offered for sale by authority of public servant.
- 221 Obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions.
- 222 Omission to assist public servant when bound by law to give assistance.
- 223 Disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant.
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