{"id":983,"date":"2018-09-03T12:13:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T12:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/?p=983"},"modified":"2018-09-03T12:13:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T12:13:50","slug":"171b-bribery-indian-penal-code-1860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/171b-bribery-indian-penal-code-1860\/","title":{"rendered":"171B. Bribery &#8211; Indian Penal Code, 1860"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><a name=\"_Toc496765021\"><\/a>171B. Bribery<\/h5>\n<p>(1) Whoever-<\/p>\n<p>(i) gives a gratification to any person with the object of inducing. him or any other person to exercise any electoral right or of rewarding any person for having exercised any such right; or<\/p>\n<p>(ii) accepts either for himself or for any other person any gratification as a reward for exercising any such right or for inducing or attempting to induce any other person to exercise any such right;<\/p>\n<p>commits the offence of bribery:<\/p>\n<p><b>Provided\u00a0<\/b>that a declaration of public policy or a promise of public action shall not be an offence under this section.<\/p>\n<p>(2) A person who offers, or agrees to give, or offers or attempts to procure, a gratification shall be deemed to give a gratification.<\/p>\n<p>(3) A person who obtains or agrees to accept or attempts to obtain a gratification shall be deemed to accept a gratification, and a person who accepts a gratification as a motive for doing what he does not intend to do, or as a reward for doing what he has not done, shall be deemed to have accepted the gratification as a reward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 171B. Bribery (1) Whoever- (i) gives a gratification to any person with the object of inducing. him or any other person to exercise any electoral right or of rewarding any person for having exercised any such right; or (ii) accepts either for himself or for any other person any gratification as a reward for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/171b-bribery-indian-penal-code-1860\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;171B. Bribery &#8211; Indian Penal Code, 1860&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1585],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}