This section covers unlawfully buying or bidding for property in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
Public servant unlawfully buying or bidding for property. 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.
What was the old IPC code for Section 203 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, unlawfully buying or bidding for property was covered in S. 169.