JUDGMENT

Swapna Joshi, J. - This Appeal has been directed against the judgment and order dated 13th February, 2007 delivered by the learned Judge, Special Court for CBI (ACB) in Special Case No.11/1992 (renumbered as 6/2003), convicting the appellant/accused for offence punishable under Sections 409 and 477A of the Indian Penal Code and sentencing him to suffer RI for one year and fine of 500/-, in default, to undergo RI for three months, on each of the Sections. The learned Judge further directed that both the sentences shall run concurrently.

2. The prosecution case in brief can be summarized as under :-

At the outset, it may be mentioned here that the present case is based on the information received and on that basis FIR (Exh.78) came to be registered against the appellant (hereinafter referred to as "the accused") who was working as a Upper Division Clerk (in short "UDC") in the office of Director, Central Groundwater Board, Nagpur, during the period from 6.5.1976 to 20.1.1979. It is alleged that the accused while working as a UDCCashier in the said office, was entrusted with the work of taking entries in the Cash Book and used to maintain the same. It is further alleged that t