Supreme Court of India
Rafikmiya Ahmedmiya Malek v. State of Gujarat
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What the Court ordered
For all these reasons, the judgment of the trial Court in Special Case No.15 of 1996 dated 30.11.1999, as affirmed by the High Court in its common judgment dated 22.01.2015 in Criminal Appeal Nos.1343/1999 and 1344/1999 is set aside. The appellants are acquitted of the charge of having committed an offence punishable under Sections 7, 12 and 13(1)(d) of the Act of 1988. The appellants are presently enlarged on bail. Their bail bonds shall stand cancelled. The Criminal Appeals are, accordingly, allowed.
Judgment, 19
In brief
The complainant, a student needing an income certificate, applied to the Mamlatdar; the application was forwarded to A1, the Talati-cum-Mantri of Village Bechri, who allegedly demanded ₹120 on 07.02.1996 and again on 14.02.1996 — ₹100 for himself and ₹20 for A2, the Grampanchayat peon. The complainant approached the Anti-Corruption Bureau and a trap was laid on 19.02.1996, with instructions to hand over the entire ₹120 in two ₹50 notes and one ₹20 note the moment a demand was made.…
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