or Legislature], or with any public servant, as such, shall be punished with imprisonment of either
description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.
163. Taking gratification, for exercise of personal influence with public servant. Whoever
accepts or obtains, or agrees to accept or attempts to obtain, from any person, for himself or for any
other person, any gratification whatever, as a motive or reward for inducing, by the exercise of
personal influence, any public servant to do or to forbear to do any official act, or in the exercise of
the official functions of such public servant to show favour or disfavour to any person, or to render or
attempt to render any service or disservice to any person l[with the 2[Federal] or any Provincial
Government or Legislature], or with any public servant, as such, shall be punished with simple
imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.
Illustration
An advocate who receives a fee for arguing a case before a Judge ; a person who receives pay for
arranging and correcting a memorial addressed to Government, setting forth the services and claims
of the memorialist ; a paid agent for a condemned criminal, who lays before the Government
statements tending to show that the condemnation was unjust, are not within this section, inasmuch
as they do not exercise or profess to exercise personal influence.
164. Punishment for abetment by public servant of offences defined in section 162 or 163.
Whoever, being a public servant, in respect of whom either of the offences defined in the last two
preceding sections is committed, abets the offence, shall be punished with imprisonment of either
description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.
Illustration
A is a public servant. B, A‘s wife, receives a present as a motive for soliciting A to give an office
to a particular person. A abets her doing so. B is punishable with imprisonment for a term not
exceeding one year, or with fine, or with both. A is punishable with imprisonment for a term which
may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.
165. Public servant obtaining valuable thing, without consideration from person concerned
in proceeding or business transacted by such public servant. Whoever, being a public servant,
accepts or obtains, or agrees to accept or attempts to obtain, for himself, or for any other person, any
valuable thing without consideration, or for a consideration which he knows to be inadequate,
from any person whom he knows to have been, or to be, or to be likely to be concerned in any
proceeding or business transacted or about to be transacted by such public servant, or having any
connection with the official functions of himself or of any public servant to whom he is subordinate,
or from any person whom he knows to be interested in or related to the person so concerned,
shall be, punished with 3[imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three
years], or with fine, or with both.
lSubs.
by A. O., 1937 for ―with the Legislative or Executive G. of I., or with the Govt. of any Presidency, or with any LieutenantGovernor‖.
by the Federal Adaptation of Laws Order, 1975 (P.O. No. 4 of 1975), Art. 2 and Table for ―Central‖.
3Subs. by the Criminal Law Amdt. Act, 1953 (37 of 1953), s. 2, for ―simple Imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years.‖
2 Subs.
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