Supreme Court · 2006 INSC 27 · Decided 17 January 2006
Om Parkash v. State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2006 INSC 27 · [2006] 1 S.C.R. 423
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 110/2006
- Decided
- 17 January 2006
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, P.K. BALASUBRAMANYAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201; Prevention of Corruption Act Section 12, 20
Headnote
B ' 'f Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988-Sections 12 and 20-Discrepancy in prosecution case-Delay in filing FIR and contradiction in statements of prosecution witnesses not explained by prosecution-Held, accused entitled to c benefit of doubt and acquittal. The prosecution's case was that 'U' and appellant approached PW-2 in his residence and offered a bribe of Rs. 10,000/- for helping them in connection with the criminal case. PW-2 took D ~ the money in presence of PW-3 and another person and sealed the same in a parcel and prepared a memo on the basis of which FIR was recorded. The
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