The Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988
§1 — Short title and extent
(1) This Act may be called the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. (2) It extends to the whole of India *** and it applies also to all citizens of India outside India.
Source & version
Official text: India Code (official) ↗
Official India Code text: The Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1558/1/A1988-49.pdf, 399,275 bytes, sha256 57a0d7960125d42d...) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-08-03. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and the @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes and amendment history excluded. Spot-verified against the PDF; full clause-level proofread pending.
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