law: Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988
  9. Taking gratification, for exercise of
  
  personal influence with public servant
  Whoever accepts or obtains or agrees to accept
  
  or attempts to obtain, from any person, for himself or for any other person,
  
  any gratification whatever, as a motive or reward for inducing, by the exercise
  
  of personal influence, any public servant whether named or otherwise to do or
  
  to forbear to do any official act, or in the exercise of the official functions
  
  of such public servant to show favor or disfavor to any person, or to render or
  
  attempt 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 for a term which shall be not
  
  less than six months but which may extend. to five years and shall also be
  
  liable to fine.