## IPC 185

### IPC 185 — Illegal purchase or bid for property offered for sale by authority of public servant
- https://unisonlegal.in/statutes/ipc/185

> 185. 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

1. Ins. by Act 10 of 1873, s. 15.
2. Subs. by Act 3 of 1895, s. 1, for section 182.
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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.