law: Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 1976
  4. Candidate for election, etc., not to accept
  
  foreign contribution
  (1) No foreign contribution shall be accepted
  
  by any-
  (a) candidate for
  
  election,
  (b) correspondent,
  
  columnist, cartoonist, editor, owner, printer or publisher of a registered
  
  newspaper,
  (c) 3[Judge,
  
  government servant] or employee of any corporation,
  (d) member of any
  
  Legislature,
  (e) political party or
  
  office-bearer thereof.
  Explanation:  In clause (c) and in
  
  section 9, "corporation" means a corporation owned or controlled by
  
  government and includes a government company as defined in section 617 of the
  
  Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956).
  (2) (a) No person, resident in India, and no
  
  citizen of India resident outside India, shall accept any foreign contribution,
  
  or acquire or agree to acquire any currency from a foreign source, on behalf of
  
  any political party, or any person referred to in sub-section (1), or both.
  (b) No person,
  
  resident in India, shall deliver any currency, whether Indian or foreign, which
  
  has been accepted from any foreign source, to any person if he knows or has
  
  reasonable cause to believe that such other person intends, or is likely, to
  
  deliver such currency to any political party or any person referred to in
  
  sub-section (1), or both.
  (c) No citizen of India 
  
  resident outside India shall deliver any currency, whether Indian or foreign, 
  
  which has been accepted from any foreign source, to
  (i) any political party 
  
  or any person referred to in sub-section (1), or both,
  (ii) any other person,
  
  if he knows or has reasonable cause to believe that such other person intends,
  
  or is likely, to deliver such currency to a political party or to any person
  
  referred to in sub-section (1), or both.
  (3) No person receiving any currency, whether
  
  Indian or foreign, from a foreign, source on behalf of any association,
  
  referred to in sub-section (1) of section 6, shall deliver such currency-
  (i) to any association
  
  or organization other than the association for which it was received, or
  (ii) to any other
  
  person, if he knows or has reasonable cause to believe that such other person intends,
  
  or is likely, to deliver such currency to an association other than the
  
  association for which such currency was received.