This section covers illegal purchase or bid for property offered for sale by authority of public servant in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
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.
Read also: Section 104 in THE BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023 – BNS
What was the old IPC code for Section 220 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, illegal purchase or bid for property offered for sale by authority of public servant was covered in S. 185.