Prohibition to accept foreign contribution

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....columnist, cartoonist, editor, owner, printer or publisher of a registered newspaper; 1[(c) public servant, 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) o....

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....d includes a Government company as defined in clause (45) of section 2 of the Companies Act, 2013 (18 of 2013).] (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) ....

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....both. (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 d....