JUDGMENT :

Shampa Dutt (Paul), J.

1. The present appeal has been preferred against a judgment of conviction dated 30th of January, 2018 and order of sentence dated 31st of January, 2018, passed by the Learned Special Court, C.B.I. at Alipore, South 24 Parganas in Special Case No. 09 of 1999, corresponding to R.C. Case No. 5(E) of 1997, thereby convicting the present appellant for committing offences punishable under Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code 1860 and sentencing him to suffer imprisonment for two years and to pay a fine of Rs.25,000/- in default to suffer simple imprisonment for six months for the offence under Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.

2. The appellant’s case is that the appellant had been placed on trial before the court of the Learned Special Court, C.B.I. at Alipore, South 24 Parganas, in Special Case No. 09 of 1999, corresponding to R.C. Case No. 5(E) of 1997; to answer the charges pertaining to commission of offences punishable under Section 477A/120B of the Indian Penal Code 1860 and Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988. The said case arose out of R.C. Case No. 5(E) of 1997, which in turn had been registered for investigation on th