Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 251 · Decided 29 May 2012
Narendra Champaklal Trivedi v. State of Gujarat
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 251 · [2012] 6 S.C.R. 165
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 97/2012
- Decided
- 29 May 2012
- Bench
- B.S. CHAUHAN, DIPAK MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 142; Prevention of Corruption Act Section 7
Headnote
Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988: s. 7 - Conviction under - Recovery of tainted money - Held: Mere recovery of A B the tainted money is not suffiCient to record a convictiQn C unless there is evidence that bribe had been demanded or money was paid voluntarily as a bribe - However, th.ere is a Act which can be dislodged by the accused by bringing on record some evidence, either direct or circumstantial, that money was D accepted by other than the motive or reward as stipulated u/ s. 7 of the Act - - In the case at hand, the money was recovered from the pockets of the accused-appellants
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