Supreme Court of India

Ambi Ram v. State of Uttarakhand

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Reported as [2019] 2 S.C.R. 656
Bench Abhay Manohar Sapre and Dinesh Maheshwari JJ.
Decided 5 February 2019

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What the Court ordered

In view of the foregoing discussion, the appeal succeeds and is partly allowed.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947 – s.5(2) – Appel lant accepted illegal gratification – Trial Court convicted the appellant for the offences punishable u/s.5(2) of the PC Act r/w. s.161 of the IPC – He was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprison ment for a period of four years and to pay a fine of Rs.5000/- u/s .5(2) of the PC Act – Also, he was sentenced to undergo rigorous impris onment for a period of three years u/s.161 IPC – Both the sentences under the PC Act and the IPC were to run concurrently – igh Court maintained the conviction and reduced the quantum of sentence to one year under

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