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JUDGMENT

REPORTABLE

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.1881 OF 2013

(@SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CRL) NO. 7511 OF 2013)

MANISH TRIVEDI

… APPELLANT

VERSUS

STATE OF RAJASTHAN

…RESPONDENT

J U D G M E N T

CHANDRAMAULI KR. PRASAD, J.

The petitioner’s challenge to his prosecution for

an offence under Sections 7, 13(1)(d) read with

Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act has

been turned down by the trial court and the said

order has been affirmed by the High Court by its

order dated 1^st of March, 2013 passed in Criminal

Miscellaneous Petition No. 1686 of 2009. It is

against this order that the petitioner has preferred

this special leave petition.

Delay condoned.

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JUDGMENT

Leave granted.

Shorn of unnecessary details, facts giving rise

to the present appeal are that the appellant at the

relevant time was a Councillor elected to the

Municipal Council, Banswara and a Member of the

Municipal Board. According to the prosecution, one

Prabhu Lal Mochi lodged a report in the Anti-

Corruption Bureau, inter alia, alleging that he had a

shoe re