RAJENDRA PRASAD Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This appeal has been preferred against judgment-dated 10.07.1997 passed by the Special Judge, Sagar in Special Case No.7/92, whereby the appellant was convicted under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (hereinafter referred to as the Act) and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 3 years and to pay fine of Rs.1000/- and in default, to suffer R.I. for 3 months.

(2.) By that judgment only, Avadhnarayan (since dead), one of the co-accused, was convicted and sentenced as under - convicted under Section sentenced to 7 of the Act undergo R.I. for 3 years and to pay fine of Rs.1000/- and in default, to suffer R.I. for 3 months. 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the Act undergo R.I. for 3 years and to pay a fine of Rs.1000/- and in default, to suffer R.I. for 3 months. with direction that the custodial sentences shall run concurrentlywhereas the other one namely Aniruddha was acquitted of these offences. No appeal has been presented by the State against the order of acquittal and the appeal, filed by Avadhnarayan and registered as Criminal Appeal No.1459/1997, has already been dismissed as abated.

(3.) The prosecution story, in brief, may be narrated thus -