Common Judgment The accused, who was convicted for offences punishable under section 420 IPC (3 counts), under section 477-A IPC (3 counts) and under section 13(2) read with 13(1)(d) (ii) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (3 counts) and was sentenced to undergo three years rigorous imprisonment for each of the charges under the aforesaid penal provisions in respect of each of the cases for a period of three years and to pay a fine of Rs.500/= to each of the offences in default to undergo three months rigorous imprisonment with an order to run the entire substantive sentence concurrently, has preferred the present appeal.

2. This court was pleased to take up the appeal for disposal on 22. 2007. Recording the submission made by the learned Senior Counsel Mr.A.Natarajan, appearing on behalf of the appellant that he had not proposed to argue on the question of conviction recorded by the Trial Court, but, would argue only on modification of the sentence, this court, having heard the submission made on either side with respect to the quantum of sentence alone, has chosen to reduce the sentence from three years to one year for each of the offences under the respective