ELIPE DHARMA RAO, J.

( 1 ) THE sole accused-appellant herein, preferred this Criminalappeal aggrieved of the conviction for the offence under Sections 7 and 13 (1) (d) (i) read with Section 13 (2) of the Prevention of corruption Act, 1988 ( for brevity the Act ) and sentence to suffer rigorous imprisonment for six months and imposition of fine of rs. 500/- in default to suffer simple imprisonment for three months for the former offence and to suffer rigorous imprisonment for one year and to pay a fine of Rs. 1,000/- in default to suffer simple imprisonment for six months for the latter offence passed in CC No. 37 of 1992 on 12-7-1996 by the learned Principal special Judge for SPE and ACB Cases, hyderabad.

( 2 ) THE gravamen of the charge, in narrow compass, is that on 30-1-1991 the father of the complainant, Thakur Jogender singh, approached the appellant who was incharge Executive Engineer, Sathnala medium Irrigation Project, Adilabad District, with an application for issue of registered contract proceedings, as his father T. Ramchander Singh intended to take the irrigation contract, but the accused informed him that the proceedings will be issued in the month of June since the ap

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