BECHAARBHAI S PRAJAPATI Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Leave granted.

(2.) Challenge in this appeal is to the order passed by a learned Single Judge of the Gujarat High Court dismissing the appeal filed by the appellant.

(3.) Challenge before the High Court was to the judgment and order dated 5.11.1993 passed by learned Sub-Judge, Bhavnagar, in Special Case No. 9 of 1991 whereby the appellant was convicted and sentenced to suffer rigorous imprisonment for one year in respect of offence under Section 161 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (in short the IPC) and for offence punishable under Section 7(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (in short the Act, he was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year in respect of each of the offence and fine with default stipulation.