BNS 220 — Illegal purchase or bid for property offered for sale by authority of public servant.

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Statutory text

220. 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.
Obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions.

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