COMMON JUDGMENT

These two appeals are directed against the judgment of conviction and sentence passed in Special C.C.No.61 of 2005 (on the file of the Special Court-

cum-Chief Judicial Magistrate, Salem), dated 18.02.2009.

2. The appellants are Junior Assistant and Administrative Officer respectively working in Govt. Medical College, Salem. The Trial Court has found them guilty for receiving Rs.3000/- as illegal gratification for issuing fitness certificates to 30 Grade-II Police Constables, who were subjected to medical examination prior to their appointment. 3. The case of the prosecution in brief:

Pursuant to the recruitment process of Grade-II Police Constable (men)

held at Salem District, 143 candidates were provisionally selected and they were subjected to medical examination to know their physical fitness. The Superintendent of Police, Salem addressed a letter to the Dean of Mohan Kumaramagalam Government Medical Hospital, Salem, vide his letter dated 28.05.2003 enclosing list of candidates provisionally selected for Grade-II Police Constable post and requested medical test to be conducted on them by constituting a Medical Board. In response to the said request, the Dean of Gover