THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE E.V.VENUGOPAL CRIMINAL APPEAL No.841 OF 2014

JUDGMENT:

This Criminal Appeal is filed by the appellant/complainant challenging the judgment dated 20.02.2014, passed by the learned I Additional Special Judge for SPE and ACB cases-cum-V Additional Chief Judge, City Civil Court, Hyderabad (for short, ‘the trial Court’) in C.C.No.1 of 2012, whereby the learned Judge found the accused not guilty for the offences under Section 7 and 13(1)(d) r/w Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (for short, the ‘P.C. Act, 1988’).

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties hereinafter referred as arrayed in C.C.

3. The brief facts of the case of the prosecution are as follows:

The accused worked as the Town Planning Supervisor (TPS) Nalgonda Municipality from 18.06.2009 to 23.09.2010 and thus, he was a public servant within the meaning of Section 2(c) of the Act. PW.2 Sri G.Brahma Chary is the father of the de facto complainant, Sri G.Srinivasa Chary (PW.1) and PW.2 owned 32.30 sq. yards of site in Ward No.5, Miryalaguda Road, Nalgonda town, which he purchased in the year 1987. During the year 2008, the Municipality acquired that site along with two more other