Illegal purchase or bid for property offered for sale by authority of public servant
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Summary
At a sale held by lawful public authority, bidding or buying on behalf of a person you know is legally incapable of purchasing, or bidding without any intention to perform the purchase, is an offence. The offender may get imprisonment up to one month, a fine up to Rs.200, or both. Applies to sales conducted by public servants under lawful authority.
Example
Priya goes to a court auction of a seized shop and places a bid on behalf of her minor brother, knowing he is legally incapable of buying. Under the law Priya can be punished with up to one month imprisonment, a fine up to Rs.200, or both.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhoever, 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.
BNSS Classification
- Imprisonment for 1 month, or fine of 200 rupees, or both.
- Non-cognizable
- Bailable
- Triable by Any Magistrate.
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