Supreme Court · 1979 INSC 1 · Decided 4 January 1979
S. P. Bhatnagar ETC. v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1979 INSC 1 · [1979] 2 S.C.R. 875
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 346/1975
- Decided
- 4 January 1979
- Bench
- JASWANT SINGH, O. CHINNAPPA REDDY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 109, 5; Prevention of Corruption Act Section 5(l)(d), 5(1)(d), 5(2)
Headnote
875 Pre1·e111ion of Corrup•tion Act, 1947 s. S(l)(d) & s. 5(2)-Scope of-Proof of guilt based on circumstantial evidence-Tests for deciding. Both the appellants were officers of Indian Oil Corporation. The Corpora· tion invited tenders from experienced contractors for rock received from eleven contractors. But in the meantime since it made a change in the specification of work to be done it asked the tenderers to sub· mit revised tender. The direction to submit fresh tt:nders was restricted only to the original 11 tenderers. Even so it \\'as alleged that a
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