Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 510 · Decided 13 August 2010
State of M.P. v. Harishankar Bhagwan PD. Tripathi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 510 · [2010] 9 S.C.R. 1148
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1513/2010
- Decided
- 13 August 2010
- Bench
- ALTAMAS KABIR, A.K. PATNAIK (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 161; Prevention of Corruption Act Section 5(1)(d), 5(2)
Headnote
Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947 - s.5(1)(d) rlw s. 5(2), s.6(1)(c) ands. 161 /PC - Prosecution for demand and C acceptance of illegal gratification - Of two accused - Complaint for demand of illegal gratification against one accused - Trap arranged - Tainted notes recovered from both the below - Appeal before Supreme Court - Appeal against the accused who demanded D bribe, abated on account of his death - Held: Possession of tainted currency notes by the respondent-accused has not been explained by the defence - The order granting sanction does not suffer from any infirmity-
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