JUDGMENT :

(K. Surender, J.) :

1. The appellant is questioning his conviction in the present appeal, recorded by the Additional Special Judge for SPE & ACB Cases, City Civil Court at Hyderabad for the offences under Sections 7 and Section 13(1)(d) r/w 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (for short “the Act of 1988”) and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of two years under both counts, vide judgment in CC No.17 of 2005 dated 19.11.2009.

2. Briefly, the case of the prosecution is that P.W.1, who is the defacto complainant lodged a complaint with ACB stating that he is the owner and possessor of agricultural lands and he had a borewell in his land. The borewell fetches sufficient watering, as such, some of the villagers including Sarpanch approached him and requested him to provide drinking water from his borewell to the village and promised to pay money for supply of the water. P.W.1 was being paid Rs.1,500/- per month by the RDO for supplying drinking water to Redlarepaka village. According to procedure, recommendation would be made by the Assistant Engineer, who was working in the Rural Water Supply Office, Veligonda to the M.R.O. M.R.O, in turn rec