PPC § 165 — Public servant obtaining valuable thing, without consideration from person

Statutory text (English)

concerned in proceeding or business transacted by such public servant. Whoever, being a public
servant, accepts or obtains, or agrees to accept or attempts to obtain, for himself, or for any other
person, any valuable thing without consideration, or for a consideration which he knows to be
inadequate,
from any person whom he knows to have been, or to be, or to be likely to be concerned in any
proceeding or business transacted or about to be transacted by such public servant, or having any
connection with the official functions of himself or of any public servant to whom he is subordinate,
or from any person whom he knows to be interested in or related to the person so concerned,
shall be punished with 1[imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to
three years], or with fine, or with both.
Illustrations
(a) A, a Collector, hires a house of Z, who has a settlement case pending before him. It is agreed
that A shall pay fifty rupees a month, the house being such that, if the bargain were made in
good faith, A would be required to pay two hundred rupees a month. A has obtained a valuable
thing from Z without adequate consideration.
(b) A, a Judge, buys of Z, who has a case pending in A’s Court, Government promissory notes at
a discount, when they are selling in the market at a premium. A has obtained a valuable thing
from Z without adequate consideration.
(c) Z’s brother is apprehended and taken before A, a Magistrate, on a charge of perjury. A sells to
Z shares in a bank at a premium, when they are selling in the market at a discount. Z pays A for
the shares accordingly. The money so obtained by A is a valuable thing obtained by him without
adequate consideration.

Source and verification

Source citation: PPC (Act XLV of 1860) s.165: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE PAKISTAN PENAL CODE' (Act No. XLV of 1860), p. 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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