IPC 185 — Illegal purchase or bid for property offered for sale by authority of public servant

Indian Penal Code, 1860

Statutory text

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.

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