What is Not Corruption ? And What is corruption ?

The following post was written on Legal Perceptions on 23.12.2015 #CorruptionLaw #IEFbygirindra

Many great people are running Wars against Corruption with full vigor & intensity. I just thought to study the definition of corruption. Honorable Parliament of India has passed An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the prevention of corruption and for matters connected therewith in the Thirty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as Prevention of Corruption Act 1988. It is having 9 offences under its jurisdiction as follows:

1. Section 7. Public servant taking gratification other than legal remuneration w.r.t an official act
2. Section 8. Taking gratification, in order, by corrupt or illegal means, to influence public servant
3. Section9. Taking gratification, for exercise of personal influence with public servant
4. Section10. Punishment for abetment by public servant of offences defined in section 8 or 9
5. Section 11. Public servant obtaining valuable thing, without consideration from person concerned in proceeding or business transacted
6. Section 12. Punishment for abetment of offences defined in section 7 or 11
7. Section 13. Criminal misconduct
8. Section14. Habitual committing of offence under sections 8, 9
9. Section15. Punishment for attempt

However The Act does not define the word "Corruption". Black’s Law Dictionary defines corruption as “ the act of doing something with an intent to give some advantage inconsistent with official duty and the rights of others, a fiduciary or official use of a station or office to procure some benefit either personally or for someone else, contrary to the rights of others...an impairment of integrity, virtue or moral principles; especially impairment of a public official’s duty by bribery”. The Transparency International definition of corruption as “the misuse of entrusted power for private gain” is a simpler but more encompassing definition which covers all the bases outlined by the Black’s Law Dictionary definition. 

Now a days google search gives proper dictionary search & its sophisticated linguistic mining systems so its output is as follows: CORRUPTION is a noun, plural noun: corruptions. Its 3 usage are as follows:

1.

dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery.

"the journalist who wants to expose corruption in high places"

synonyms: dishonesty, dishonest dealings, unscrupulousness, deceit, deception, duplicity, double-dealing, fraud, fraudulence, misconduct, lawbreaking, crime, criminality, delinquency, wrongdoing, villainy; More

antonyms: honesty

the action or effect of making someone or something morally depraved.

"the corruption of youth was a powerful motif"

synonyms: sin, sinfulness, ungodliness, unrighteousness, profanity, impiety, impurity; More

antonyms: morality, purity

2.

the process by which a word or expression is changed from its original state to one regarded as erroneous or debased.

"a record of a word's corruption"

synonyms: alteration, falsification, doctoring, manipulation, manipulating, fudging, adulteration, debasement, degradation, abuse, subversion, misrepresentation, misapplication; rarevitiation

"these figures have been subject to corruption"

the process by which a computer database or program becomes debased by alteration or the introduction of errors.

"this procedure creates a temporary file to prevent accidental corruption"

3. 

archaic

the process of decay; putrefaction.

"the potato turned black and rotten with corruption"

So can we begins to understand that what is Corruption ?

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