S. Muralidhar, J.

1. The challenge in this appeal is to the impugned judgment dated 19th July 2008 passed by the learned Special Judge, in CC No. 134/06/01 convicting the Appellant for the offences under Section 7 and Section 13 (1) (d) read with Section 13 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (‘PC Act’) and the order on sentence dated 22nd July 2008 whereby for the offence under Section 7 PC Act, he was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment (‘RI’) for one year and to pay a fine of Rs. 2,000 and in default of payment of fine, to undergo simple imprisonment (‘SI’) for two months and for the offence under Section 13 (1) (d) read with Section 13 (2) PC Act, he was further sentenced to undergo RI for one and half years with fine of Rs. 3,000 and in default, to undergo SI for three months. Both the sentences were directed to run concurrently.

2. The Appellant was employed as Patwari with the Delhi Development Authority (‘DDA’). The case of the prosecution is that the Complainant, Tarkeshwar Sharma (PW-5), who was conducting furniture business at 18-C, Bharat Vihar, Kakrola, Delhi, was told by certain employees of the DDA that his house was going to be demolished