Judgement

JUDGMENT :- Criminal Appeal No. 96/90.

On a successful trap being laid the appellant was tried and found guilty for having accepted a bribe of Rs. 100/- from the complainant. The prosecution story is of the usual kind. The demand of bribe was made by the appellant under the threat that he would, as an authorised Food Inspector, purchased samples of milk from the complainant and put him to harassment. Otherwise in his capacity as Health Inspector he had complained to the authorities concerned about the insanitation created by the complainant in keeping cattle in his railway quarters. In these circumstances, the C. B. I. and the Department of Vigilance were moved into matter and the trap was organised. The tainted currency of two notes of rupees 50/- denomination were found in the pocket of the appellant on the successful completion of the trap. The version of the appellant was that the complainant had walked into his office and on its own put the two notes on the top of an almirah placed in the covered verandah in front of his office and that the C.B.I. officials on arrival had forcibly put those currency notes in his pocket. His case was that the C.B.I. Inspector was inimic