Supreme Court of India

Ram Lal v. State of Himachal Pradesh

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Reported as [2018] 12 S.C.R. 857
Bench R. Banuma Thi and Indira Banerjee JJ.
Decided 3 October 2018

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What the Court ordered

In the result, the conviction of the appellant under Section 13(1)(c) read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and sentence of imprisonment of two years is confirmed.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Evidence – Extra-judicial confession – Evidentiary value of – Appellant-peon with the Bank was assigned the job of Cash Clerk – His job was to r eceive money fr om the account holders for depositing in their Saving Bank accounts – However , he used to make entries in their pass books but, would not account money in the account books of the bank nor did he pass it to the cashier and thus, caused wr ongful loss to the bank to the tune of Rs.38,500/- – Appellant convicted by T rial Cour t as also by the High Cour t – Plea of appellant that he did not voluntarily make any confession statement and

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