Corruption
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Corruption, the word 'corruption' has a wide con-notation and embraces almost all the spheres of our day-to-day life the world over. In a limited sense it connotes allowing decisions and actions of a person to be influenced not by rights or wrongs of a cause, but by the prospects of monetary gains or other selfish considerations, State of A.P. v. Vasudeva Rao, (2004) 9 SCC 319 (323): AIR 2004 SC 960. (Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947, ss. 4 and 5)
See BRIBE and preceding title.
See BRIBE and preceding title.
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