Supreme Court of India
Girija Prasad (dead) by Lrs. v. State of Madhya Pradesh
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that the High Court was wholly justified in setting aside acquittal of the accused and in recording an order of conviction against him.
Judgment, page 8
From the headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s. 161-Prosecution of accused u!s 161 /PC and s.5(/)(d) rlw s.5(2) of Prevention of Corruption Act-Accused caught by trap party accepting money from complainant-Plea of "false involvement" and "total denial" by accused-Money said to have been accepted on behalf of his senior officer Acquittal by trial court-Conviction by High Court-Held, High Court wholly justified in setting aside acquittal and recording conviction-There being positive finding by both Courts below of accused accepting money, presumption u!s 4 of Prevention of Corruption Act would get attracted-It was also
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Where later benches applied it
- 2013 Shivasharanappa and Others v. State of Karnataka
- 2012 State of Haryana v. Shakuntla and Ors.
- 2017 Pawan Kumar v. State of H.P.
- 2015 Vinod Kumar v. State of Haryana
- 2012 Govindaraju@ Govinda v. State by Sriramapuram P.S. & Anr.
- 2012 Jugendra Singh v. State of U.P.
Of those, 2 relied on · 3 referred to · 1 mentioned
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