Of Contemptsof The Lawful Authorityof Public Servants
IPC Section 185 - Illegal purchase or bid for property offered for sale b y authority of public servant
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IPC Section 185 deals with illegal purchase or bid for property offered for sale b y authority of public servant.
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185. Illegal purchase or bid for property offered for sale b y 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 pr operty 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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