PPC § 163 — Taking gratification, for exercise of personal influence with public servant.

Statutory text (English)

Whoever accepts or obtains, or agrees to accept or attempts to obtain, from any person, for himself or
for any other person, any gratification whatever, as a motive or reward for inducing, by the exercise of
personal influence, any public servant to do or to forbear to do any official act, or in the exercise of
the official functions of such public servant to show favour or disfavour to any person, or to render or
attempt to render any service or disservice to any person 5[with the 6[Federal] or any Provincial
Government or Legislature], or with any public servant, as such, shall be punished with simple
imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.

Illustration
An advocate who receives a fee for arguing a case before a Judge ; a person who receives pay for
arranging and correcting a memorial addressed to Government, setting forth the services and claims
of the memorialist ; a paid agent for a condemned criminal, who lays before the Government statements
tending to show that the condemnation was unjust,— are not within this section, inasmuch as they do
not exercise or profess to exercise personal influence.

Source and verification

Source citation: PPC (Act XLV of 1860) s.163: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE PAKISTAN PENAL CODE' (Act No. XLV of 1860), p. 69, 70, ingested 2026-09-15. Automated transcription from official source (pypdf extraction, audited artifact repair); human admin re-check required before production.

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• Date not confirmed: Consolidated current text as published in the official Pakistan Code PDF (p. 69, 70) — reflects all amendments recorded in the official footnotes up to ingest date 2026-09-15. Automated transcription; per-amendment…

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