Anjana Prakash, J.-Both the Appellants have been convicted under Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced to One year Rigorous Imprisonment as also under Section 420 read with 120B of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced to One year Rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 3,0001- in default of which Three months Rigorous Imprisonment. The Appellant Bidyut Kumar Pal has also been convicted under Section 477-A of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced to Rigorous Imprisonment for Two years and under Sections 13(1)(d)/13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and sentenced to One year Rigorous Imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 1,0001- in default of which Rigorous Imprisonment for Two months by the Special Judge, C.B.I., South Bihar, Patna, by a Judgment dated 15.3.1996 in Special Case No.34 of 1990.

2. The case of the prosecution briefly stated is that while Appellant Bidyut Kumar Pal was posted as a Clerk in Patna University Branch of Allahabad Bank during 1989, he allegedly entered into a criminal conspiracy with Appellant Bhishma Prasad Sharma, Proprietor of the Prabnat Printing Press, Muzaffarpur, and wrongly credited a sum of Rs. 1,88,2531- to his firm's Account