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CASE NO.:

Appeal (crl.) 770 of 2001

PETITIONER:

K.C. SAREEN

Vs.

RESPONDENT:

C.B.I., CHANDIGARH

DATE OF JUDGMENT: 02/08/2001

BENCH:

K.T. Thomas & S.N. Variava

JUDGMENT:

THOMAS, J.

Leave granted.

The appeal of a public servant convicted and sentenced

for corruption charges is pending in the High Court. The

sentence has been suspended by the High Court during the

pendency of the appeal. The public servant wants his

conviction also to be suspended in order to avert the other

fall out of the conviction. But the High Court declined to

oblige him though he moved the High Court twice for the

said purpose. This appeal by special leave is in challenge

of the order dated 7.2.2001 passed by the single Judge, by

which the second petition to suspend the conviction was

dismissed.

Appellant was an officer of the Punjab National Bank.

When he was posted at the Mewa Mandi (Amritsar) branch of

the bank he was put in charge of the current account.

During the said period he got himself involved in a

prosecution along with some of his co-employees of the same

bank for defrauding the bank to the tune of about

Rs.2 lakhs