Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 31 · Decided 12 January 2004
T. Shankar Prasad v. State of Andhra Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 31 · [2004] 1 S.C.R. 419
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 909/1997
- Decided
- 12 January 2004
- Bench
- DORAISWAMY RAJU, ARIJIT PASAYAT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 120; Evidence Act Section 1, 3, 4, 154; Prevention of Corruption Act Section 20, 13(2)
Headnote
B Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988: Section 20-Pres11mption-Na111re of-Held: ls an inference of a certain c fact drawn from other proved facts and could be either legal or compulsory- Unless such presumption is disproved or dispelled or rebutted it could be treated as tantamozmting to proof-But of proof-Held: Direct evidence is D one of the modes through which a presumption could be proved-But this is ~. not the only mode. Sections 7 and 13(/)(d) rlw S. 13(2)-Bribery-Presumption under- Applicability of-Assistant Commercial Tax Officer (A-1) demanded bribe E from·
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