Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 23: Additional Sessions Judge Anticorruption Jammu Sanjay Parihar has acquitted Madan Lal then Head-Draftsman JDA Div-1 Jammu who was caught red-handed by the VOJ on August 25, 2009, while demanding and accepting Rs 500 as bribe money from complainant, as complainant turned hostile.
According to VOJ case that one Romesh Kumar Sharma lodged a written complaint in which he submitted that Head Draftsman JDA Division-1 Jammu is demanding Rs.500 for processing the pay dues of 10 security guards of Punjab Security hired by Jammu Development Authority for the security purposes. Accordingly a trap team was constituted and laid a trap and caught Head Draftsman red-handed while accepting Rs 500. VOJ recovered the bribe money.
Additional Sessions Judge Anticorruption Jammu Sanjay Parihar after hearing Adv KS Charak appearing for the accused, observed that the oral evidence on the record of the file nowhere satisfactorily explains the ingredients of the offence 161 RPC and 5(2) PC Act and there is not any iota of material against the accused that he laid demand of bribe to complainant for doing favour to him for processing of wage bill claim nor is there any clinching evidence that bribe money of Rs 500 was accepted by accused in furtherance of such demand. With these observations Court acquitted the accused from the charges leveled against him.
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