JUDGMENT :

1. This is an appeal impugning an order and judgment dated 2nd June 2003 passed by the Special Judge, Kolhapur, acquitting the accused of offences punishable under Section 7 (Public servant taking gratification other than legal remuneration in respect of an official act), Section 13 (1) (d), 13 (2) and Section 12 (Punishment for abetment of offences defined in section 7 or 11) of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (PC Act).

2. It is prosecution’s case that complainant – Pandit Bhausaheb Ranadiwe (PW-1) was having agricultural land of 1 Acre 30 Gunthas at Kasaba Bawada. His brother also has a share in that land. Another land admeasuring 30 R was in cultivation by his father as a tenant. His father died on 11th December 1993. His brother Shamrao Bhausaheb Ranadiwe and complainant were cultivating this tenanted land separately. After the death of the father, complainant gave an application on 26th December 1993, i.e., 15 days after the death of his father, in Tahasil office at Karvir for entering his name as tenant in the tenanted land. PW-1 also gave an application in Gav Chavadi on 29th December 1993 for entering his name in the ancestral land as an owner. Notices were issu