COURT CLERK GUILTY UNDER CORRUPTION ACT FOR HOLDING FILE
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1998 Cr.L.J. Delhi Page 3022
Teka Ram Appellant V. The State Respondent
P.C. Act 1947 Sec. 5(1)(d) – Illegal gratification – Conviction for – Validity – Trap Case – Accused, a reader in court demanding bribe for forwarding application – Slipping away from court when trap was laid – thereby he could neither be apprehended nor tainted money could be recovered – Accused cannot benefit from said circumstance to claim discrepancy in investigation- Offence against accused proved beyond doubt – Conviction upheld.
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PC act
7. Public servant taking gratification other than legal remuneration in respect of an official act.—Whoever, being, or expecting to be a public servant, accepts or obtains or agrees to accept or attempts to obtain from any person, for himself or for any other person, any gratification whatever, other than legal remuneration, as a motive or reward for doing or forbearing to do any official act or for showing or forbearing to show, in the exercise of his official functions, favour or disfavour to any person or for rendering or attempting to render any service or disservice to any person, with the Central Government or any State Government or Parliament or the Legislature of any State or with any local authority, corporation or Government company referred to in clause (c) of section 2, or with any public servant, whether named or otherwise, shall be punishable with imprisonment which shall be not less than six months but which may extend to five years and shall also be liable to fine.
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