RAVI DATT KHARAITI RAM Vs. THE STATE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) RAVI Datt Appellant has been convicted under Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act (II of 1947) by Special Judge, Kapurthala and sentenced to six months' R.I. He appeals against his conviction and sentence .

(2.) RAVI Datt was posted as Sub -Divisional Clerk in S.D and O.s office (E and M) at Kapurthala. On 20 -11 -1952 a money order for Rs. 428/3/ - reached this office in payment of bills for electricity supplied at railway station. Phagwara. The money order came from the Divisional Pay and Accounts Officer, Nor -them Railway, Ferozpur. Ravi Datt, as Sub -Divisional clerk of the payee's office is said to have received the payment and embezzled the same.

(3.) COUNSEL for the Appellant has taken certain legal objections to the validity of the trial. He contends that sanction to prosecute the Appellant though tendered in evidence and exhibited, was not duly proved. He means to say that some evidence must have been led to prove that the document bore signature of the authority by which the sanction was accorded.