165. Public servant obtaining valuable thing, without consideration, from person concerned in proceeding or business transacted by public servant

Whoever, being a public servant, accepts or obtains, or agrees to accept or attempts to obtain, for himself or for any other person, any valuable thing, without consideration, or for a consideration which he knows to be inadequate, from any person whom he knows -

to have been, or to be, or to be likely to be concerned in any proceeding or business transacted or about to be transacted by such public servant, or having any connection with the official functions of himself or of any public servant to whom he is subordinate; or

to be interested in or related to the person so concerned, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years and fine.

A, a Judge, hires a house of 2, who has a settlement case pending before him. It is agreed that A shall pay $50 a month, the house being such that, if the bargain were made in good faith, A would be required to pay $2000 a month. A has obtained a valuable thing from

A, a Judge, buys of 2, who has a cause pending in A's court, Government promissory notes at a discount, when they are selling in the market at a premium. A has obtained a valuable thing from Z without adequate consideration.