ORAL JUDGMENT

This appeal is by the State represented by Lokayukta Police, being aggrieved by the judgment and order dated 17.06.2013 passed in Special Case no.158/2009 on the file of the District and Sessions Judge at Chamarajanagar, by which the Trial Court had acquitted the respondent - accused for the offences punishable under Sections 7, 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 ('Act', for brevity).

2. Brief facts of the case of the prosecution are that the complainant, P.W.1, namely, A.V.Channiyappan had apparently approached the respondent - accused, who was a Taluk Surveyor, then working in the Survey Department in the Office of the Tahsildar, Gundlupet, requesting him to have his land measuring 3 acres 28 guntas bearing Sy.No.23/2 situated at Managalli village, Gundlupete Taluk, surveyed and to have the encroachment by the neighbours removed enabling him to have the ingress and aggress and to carry his agricultural produce. That the accused went on postponing the same. Finally the accused had informed him that it was difficult to have the land surveyed as the neighbours would create galata and had instructed the complainant to seek police he