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Penal Code, 1860 (Act No. XLV of 1860).
to withdraw from being, a candidate or to vote or refrain from voting at an
election.
Bribery
171B. (1) Whoever
(i) gives a gratification to any person with the object of inducing him or any
other person to exercise any electoral right or of rewarding any person for having
exercised any such right; or
(ii) accepts either for himself or for any other person any gratification as a
reward for exercising any such right or for inducing or attempting to induce any
other person to exercise any such right,
commits the offence of bribery:
Provided that a declaration of public policy or a promise of public action shall not
be an offence under this section.
(2) A person who offers, or agrees to give, or offers or attempts to procure, a
gratification shall be deemed to give a gratification.
(3) A person who obtains or agrees to accept or attempts to obtain a gratification
shall be deemed to accept a gratification, and a person who accepts a
gratification as a motive for doing what he does not intend to do, or as a reward
for doing what he has not done, shall be deemed to have accepted the
gratification as a reward.
Undue influence at
171C.(1) Whoever voluntarily interferes or attempts to interfere with the free
exercise of any electoral right commits the offence of undue influence at an
election.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of subsection (1),
whoever
elections
(a) threatens any candidate or voter, or any person in whom a candidate or voter
is interested, with injury of any kind, or
(b) induces or attempts to induce a candidate or voter to believe that he or any
person in whom he is interested will become or will be rendered an object of
Divine displeasure or of spiritual censure,
shall be deemed to interfere with the free exercise of the electoral right of such
candidate or voter, within the meaning of subsection (1).
(3) A declaration of public policy or a promise of public action, or the mere
exercise of a legal right without intent to interfere with an electoral right, shall
not be deemed to be interference within the meaning of this section.
Personation at
elections
171D. Whoever at an election applies for a voting paper or votes in the name of
any other person, whether living or dead, or in a fictitious name, or who having
voted once at such election applies at the same election for a voting paper in his
own name, and whoever abets, procures or attempts to procure the voting by
any person in any such way, commits the offence of personation at an election.
Punishment of
bribery
171E. Whoever commits the offence of bribery shall be punished with
imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or
with fine, or with both:
Provided that bribery by treating shall be punished with fine only.
Explanation.Treating means that form of bribery where the gratification consists
in food, drink, entertainment, or provision.
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