BNS Section 220 — Illegal purchase or bid for property offered for sale by authority of public servant
Section 220 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Illegal purchase or bid for property offered for sale by authority of public servant”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
220. Illegal purchase or bid for property offered for sale by 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 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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