Supreme Court of India

Mukut Bihari & Anr. v. State of Rajasthan

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Reported as [2012] 6 S.C.R. 710

Bench Dr. B.S. Chauhan and Dipak Misra JJ.

Decided 25 May 2012

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From the headnote

Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988: c ss. 7 and 13(1)(d) rlw. s. 13(2) - Prosecution under rlw s. 1208 /PC - Demand and acceptance of bribe - Trap - Seizure of tainted money - Conviction by trial court and sentence of 2 years RI - Conviction and sentence confirmed by High Court - On appeal, held: Conviction justified - Demand as well 0 as acceptance of bribe adequately proved - The trap was proved by the depositions of prosecution witnesses including independent witnesses - Sentence reduced to 1 year in view of the fact that the accused lost their services; that the case was two .decades old;

Authorities it was built on

2009 C.M. Girish Babu v. C.B.I. Cochin, High Court of Kerala cited by 11
2011 State of Kerala and Anr. v. C.P. Rao cited by 10
2006 T. Subramaniam v. The State of Tamil Nadu cited by 10
2009 State of Maharashtra v. Dnyaneshwar Laxman Rao Wankhede cited by 6
2008 Moni Shankar v. Union of India and Another cited by 3
2007 The Chief Commercial Manager, South Central Railway, Secunderabad and Ors. v. G. Ratnam and Ors. cited by 2
2000 Smt. Meena v. State of Maharashtra cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2016 V. Sejappa v. The State by Police Inspector Lokayukta, Chitradurga relied on
2014 Satvir Singh v. State of Delhi through Cbi referred to

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to

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