Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 250 · Decided 25 May 2012
Mukut Bihari & ANR. v. State of Rajasthan
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 250 · [2012] 6 S.C.R. 710
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 870/2012
- Decided
- 25 May 2012
- Bench
- B.S. CHAUHAN, DIPAK MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 1208; Prevention of Corruption Act
Headnote
Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988: c ss. 7 and 13(1)(d) rlw. s. 13(2) - Prosecution under rlw s. 1208 /PC - Demand and acceptance of bribe - Trap - Seizure of tainted money - Conviction by trial court and sentence of 2 years RI - Conviction and sentence confirmed by High Court - On appeal, held: 0 as acceptance of bribe adequately proved - The trap was proved by the depositions of prosecution witnesses including independent witnesses - Sentence reduced to 1 year in view of the fact that the accused lost their services; that the case was two .decades old; that the accused were suffering
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