law: Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 1976
  5. Organization of a political nature not to
  
  accept foreign contribution except with the prior permission of the Central Government
  (1) No organization of a political nature, not
  
  being a political party, shall, accept any foreign contribution except with the
  
  prior permission of the Central Government.
  Explanation:  For the purposes of
  
  this section, "organization of a political nature, not being a political
  
  party" means such organization as the Central Government may, having
  
  regard to the activities of the organization or the ideology propagated by the
  
  organization or the programme of the organization or the association of the
  
  organization with the activities of any political party, by an order published
  
  in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf.
  (2) (a) Except with the prior permission of
  
  the Central Government, 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 foreign currency, on behalf of an organization referred to in
  
  sub-section (1).
  (b) Except with the
  
  prior permission of the Central Government, no person, resident in India, shall
  
  deliver any foreign currency 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 an organization referred to in sub-section (1).
  (c) Except with the prior
  
  approval of the Central Government, 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 organization
  
  referred to in sub-section (1), or
  (ii) any person, if he
  
  knows or has reasonable cause to believe that such person intends, or is
  
  likely, to deliver such currency to an organization referred to in sub-section
  
  (1).