JUDGMENT :

Ramachandra D. Huddar, J.

This is an appeal by accused-appellant being aggrieved against the Judgment of his Conviction and Order of Sentence passed by the Principal District and Sessions Judge, Mysore in Spl. Case No. 29/2005 dated 03.09.2011 convicting and sentencing the accused for the offence punishable under Section 13 (i)(e) r/w Section 13 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, sentencing the accused to undergo imprisonment for a period of 3 years and to pay a fine of Rs.40,00,000/- and in default of payment of fine, to undergo Rigorous Imprisonment for one year.

2. The parties to this appeal are referred to as per their rank before the trial Court for convenience.

The prosecution case, in brief, can be stated as under:

3. That the accused at the relevant time was working as Electrical Attender at PWD, Mysuru from 14.03.1973 to 17.11.1999. It is alleged that, during this period, he amassed wealth to the tune of Rs.19,44,603/- as against his known source of income of Rs.11,73,353.44 for which, he did not furnish satisfactory account of this pecuniary resources towards the properties acquired by him, which according to the case of the prosecution is disproportiona