Supreme Court of India

Krishna Ram v. State of Rajasthan

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Reported as [2009] 4 S.C.R. 457
Bench Lokeshwar Singh Panta and B. Sudershan Reddy JJ.
Decided 17 March 2009

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What the Court ordered

In the result, for the afore-stated reasons, there is no merit in this appeal and it is, accordingly, dismissed.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 - ss. 7, 13(1)(d) rlw 13(2) and 20 - Prosecution for demand and acceptance of c illegal gratification - Tainted money recovered from the possession of accused - Acquittal by trial court - Conviction by High Court - On appeal, held: Conviction justified - Demand and acceptance of illegal gratification proved - Evidence of prosecution witnesses are consistent and reliable - Once recovery of money from the possession of accused was proved, the burden of presumption uls 20 shifted on the accused and the accused failed to rebut that presumption. Code of criminal

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