Penal Code · s 164

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s 164Punishment for abetment by public servant of offences defined in section 162 or 163

Whoever, being a public servant, in respect of whom either of the offences defined in sections 162 and 163 is committed, abets the offence, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years and fine.

A is a public servant. B, A's wife. receives a present as a motive for soliciting A to give an office to a particular person. A abets her doing so. B is punishable with imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or fine, or both. A is punishable with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years, or fine, or both.