Supreme Court of India
The State by S.P. through the Spe Cbi v. Uttamchand Bohra
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What the Court ordered
Held as under: (SCC pp. 401-02, paras 10-11) “10. … If two views are possible and one of them gives rise to suspicion only, as distinguished from grave suspicion, the trial Judge will be empowered to discharge the accused and at this stage he is not to see whether the trial will end in conviction or acquittal.
Judgment, page 13
From the headnote
Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 – ss.13(1)(e), 13(2) – -1, a public servant was accused of accumulating assets disproportionate to his known sources of income in collusion with other accused – Respondent accused of abetting and/or conspiring with -1 – According to the prosecution, -1 acquired a flat, through a company – Respondent was alleged to be close associate and financer of -1 and his family – Chargesheet against the respondent quashed by High Court – On appeal, held: Role attributed to the respondent is that he helped in the execution of the sale deed of the property which was…
Authorities it was built on
- 1977 State of Bihar v. Ramesh Singh
- 1999 P. Nallammal v. State Represented by Inspector of Police
- 2008 Aloka Bose v. Parmatma Devi & Ors.
- 2012 Central Bureau of Investigation, Hyderabad v. K. Narayana Rao
- 1972 Nirmaljit Singh Hoon v. The State of West Bengal and Anr.
- 1995 State of Jammu and Kashmir v. Sudershan Chakkar and Anr.
- 2016 Deepak Surana v. State of M.p
Where later benches applied it
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