IPC Section 169 — Public servant unlawfully buying or bidding for property

Summary

A public servant who is legally required not to buy or bid for a specific property, but does so anyway—either in their own name, someone else’s name, jointly, or in shares with others—can be punished with simple imprisonment for up to two years, a fine, or both. If the property was purchased, it will also be taken away by the government.

Official Text

Whoever, being a public servant, and being legally bound as such public servant, not to purchase or bid for certain property, purchases or bids for that property, either in his own name or in the name of another, or jointly, or in shares with others, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both; and the property, if purchased, shall be confiscated.

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BNS §203 — Public servant unlawfully buying or bidding for property