Section 167: Corrupt practice

167. Corrupt practice.—A person is guilty of the offence of corrupt practice if he— (a) is guilty of bribery, personation, exercising undue influence, capturing of polling station or polling booth, tampering with papers, and making or publishing a false statement or declaration; (b) calls upon or persuades any person to vote, or to refrain from voting, for any candidate on the ground that he belongs to a particular religion, province, community, race, caste, bradari, sect or tribe 1[or is of a particular gender or is a transgender person]; (c) causes or attempts to cause any person present and waiting to vote at the polling station to depart without voting; or (d) contravenes the provisions of section 132.

Effective date: 2017-10-02

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