Section 103

Use of threats or fraud to influence vote of member of a Provincial Council, local authority, or of a scheduled institution, or of a governing body of a scheduled institution

A person -

who, attempts by any threat, deceit, suppression of the truth or other unlawful means to influence any member of a Provincial Council, a local authority, or of a scheduled institution or of the governing body of a scheduled institution or a committee thereof in giving or withholding his vote in favour of or against any measure, motion, resolution or question submitted to any meeting, or in not attending any meeting, of such Provincial Council, local authority, scheduled institution, or governing body or of any committee thereof; or

who attempts by any such means as in the paragraph (a) to influence any member or any officer or employee of a Provincial Council, a local authority, or of a scheduled institution, or of the governing body of a scheduled institution to aid in procuring or preventing the passing of any vote or the granting of any contract or advantage in favour of any person, or to perform or abstain from performing, or to aid in procuring, expediting, delaying, hindering or preventing the performance of, any official act, commits an offence under this Act and on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one million rupees and to a term of rigorous imprisonment not exceeding seven years.