Supreme Court · 2000 INSC 513 · Decided 9 November 2000
Madhukar Bhaskarrao Joshi v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2000 INSC 513 · [2000] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 475
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 960/2000
- Decided
- 9 November 2000
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, R.P. SETHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Prevention of Corruption Act Section 20(1), 13(2), 5(2)
Headnote
B Criminal Law: Prevention of Corruption Act. 1947-Section 4(/)-Gratification­ Payment to or acceptance by public servant-Held, once the premise of C payment or acceptance of gratification is established, inference drawn is that the said gratification was accepted as motive or reward for doing sentence of imprisonment-Power of D court to impose less than the minimum sentence-Held, Parliament's resolve to meet corruption cases with a strong hand by fixing minimum sentence of imprisonment should not be defeated by reduction of sentence-Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988;
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