law: Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988
  7. Public servant taking gratification other
  
  than legal remuneration in respect of an official act
  Whoever, being, or expecting to be a public
  
  servant, accepts or obtains or agrees to accept or attempts to obtain from any
  
  person, for himself or for any other person, any gratification whatever, other
  
  than legal remuneration, as a motive or reward for doing or forbearing to do
  
  any official act or for showing or forbearing to show, in the exercise of his
  
  official functions, favor or disfavor to any person or for rendering or
  
  attempting to render any service or disservice to any person, with the Central
  
  Government or any State Government or Parliament or the Legislature of any
  
  State or with any local authority, corporation or Government company referred
  
  to in clause (c) of section 2, or with any public servant, whether named or
  
  otherwise, shall be punishable with imprisonment which shall be not less than
  
  six months but which may extend to five years and shall also be liable to fine.
  Explanations.- (a) "Expecting to be a public
  
  servant." If a person not expecting to be in office obtains a
  
  gratification by deceiving others into a belief that he is about to be in
  
  office, and that he will then serve them, he may be guilty of cheating, but he
  
  is not guilty of the offence defined in this section.
  (b) "Gratification." The word
  
  "gratification" is not restricted to pecuniary gratifications or to
  
  gratifications estimable in money.
  (c) "Legal remuneration." The words
  
  "legal remuneration" are not restricted to remuneration which a
  
  public servant can lawfully demand, but include all remuneration which he is
  
  permitted by the Government or the organization, which he serves, to accept.
  (d) "A motive or reward for doing."
  
  A person who receives a gratification as a motive or reward for doing what he
  
  does not intend or is not in a position to do, or has not done, comes within
  
  this expression.
  (e) Where a public servant induces a person erroneously
  
  to believe that his influence with the Government has obtained a title for that
  
  person and thus induces that person to give the public servant, money or any
  
  other gratification as a reward for this service, the public servant has
  
  committed an offence under this section.