Supreme Court of India

Madhukar Bhaskarrao Joshi v. State of Maharashtra

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Reported as [2000] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 475

Bench K.T. Thomas and R.P. Sethi JJ.

Decided 9 November 2000

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Criminal Law: Prevention of Corruption Act. 1947-Section 4(/)-Gratification Payment to or acceptance by public servant-Held, once the premise of payment or acceptance of gratification is established, inference drawn is that the said gratification was accepted as motive or reward for doing or forbearing to do an official act-Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988-Section 20(1). Section 5(2) proviso-Minimum sentence of imprisonment-Power of court to impose less than the minimum sentence-Held, Parliament's resolve to meet corruption cases with a strong hand by fixing minimum sentence of

Authorities it was built on

1997 Mohmoodkhan Mahboobkhan Pathan v. State of Maharashtra cited by 4
1996 Jaykumar Ganpati Waikar v. Nivritti Sakharam Titwe and Ors. cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2012 Narendra Champaklal Trivedi v. State of Gujarat relied on
2012 State of Rajasthan v. Vinod Kumar relied on
2022 Neeraj Dutta v. State (govt. of N.C.T. of Delhi) referred to
2015 Shanti Lal Meena v. State of Nct of Delhi, Cbi referred to
2015 Vinod Kumar v. State of Punjab referred to

Of those, 2 relied on · 3 referred to

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