Section 220 in THE BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023 – BNS

Illegal purchase or bid for property offered for sale by authority of public servant.

  1. 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.