law: Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010
  Chapter II:
  
  Regulation of Foreign Contribution and Foreign Hospitality
  3. Prohibition 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.  
  
    Judge,
  
  Government servant or employee of any corporation or any other body controlled
  
  or owned by the Government;
  d.  
  
    member
  
  of any Legislature;
  e.  
  
    political
  
  party or office-bearer thereof;
  f.  
  
    organisation
  
  of a political nature as may be specified under sub-section (1) of section 5 by
  
  the Central Government;
  g.  
  
    association
  
  or company engaged in the production or broadcast of audio news or audio visual
  
  news or current affairs programmes through any electronic mode, or any other
  
  electronic form as defined in clause (r) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the
  
  Information Technology Act, 2000 or any other mode of mass communication;
  h.  
  
    correspondent
  
  or columnist, cartoonist, editor, owner of the association or company referred
  
  to in clause (g).
  Explanation.--In clause (c) and section 6,
  
  the expression "corporation" means a corporation owned or controlled
  
  by the Government and includes a Government company as defined in section 617
  
  of the Companies Act, 1956.
  1.  
  
  
  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; or
   
  
   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.
  1.  
  
  
  2.  
  
  
  3.  No
  
  person receiving any currency, whether Indian or foreign, from a foreign source
  
  on behalf of any person or class of persons, referred to in section 9, shall
  
  deliver such currency--
  a.  
  
    to
  
  any person other than a person for which it was received, or
  b.  
  
    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 a person other
  
  than the person for which such currency was received.