JUDGMENT :

K. Surender, J.

1. The appellant/A1 is aggrieved by the conviction recorded by the Principal Special Judge for SPE & ACB Cases, City Civil Court at Hyderabad for the under Sections 7 and Section 13(1)(d) r/w 13(2) of the Act of 1988 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (for short “the Act of 1988”) and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of one year under both counts, vide judgment in CC No.49 of 2004 dated 20.12.2007, the present appeal is filed. A2 was also tried along with the appellant/A1 and convicted. However, due to his death, the appeal filed by A2 was dismissed as abated.

2. Briefly, the case of the prosecution is that the appellant was working as Mandal Revenue Officer, Penubally Mandal, Khammam District. The father of P.W.1/defacto complainant died in the year 1999. P.W.1 was going around the office for three years to mutate his name in the revenue records in the place of his father. The application was also filed. However, he approached A1 on 07.08.2002 requesting him to process his application for mutating his name in the revenue records. The appellant demanded bribe of Rs.5,000/- to mutate his name in the revenue records. On the next d