Prevention Of Corruption Act, 1947.

This Act governs and defines corruption and its punishments.
The Act consists of 6 Sections. Section 4 provides for the offences under Sections 161 to 165 of the Penal Code to be cognizable offences. A public servant is said to commit the offence of criminal misconduct in the circumtances as prescribed in Section 5. Section 5 B provides for the declaration of assets. Section 5 C sets forth provisions for possession of property disproportionate to known sources of income. Any public servant who has in his possession any property, movable or immovable either in his own name or in the name of any other person, which there is reason to believe to have been acquired by improper means and which is proved to be disproportionate to the known sources of income of such public servant shall, if he fails to account for such possession to the satisfaction of the Court trying him, be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years and with fine, and on such conviction the property found to be disproportionate to the known sources of income of the accused by the Court shall be forfeited to the Provincial Government.