{"id":36108,"date":"2018-11-01T13:34:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T08:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=36108"},"modified":"2018-11-01T13:34:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T08:04:57","slug":"sc-for-conclusive-proof-in-graft-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-for-conclusive-proof-in-graft-case\/","title":{"rendered":"SC for conclusive proof in graft case: \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/sc-for-conclusive-proof-in-graft-case\/article19291309.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SC for conclusive proof in graft case<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span>\u00a0<b>SC makes proof of demand necessary to give a verdict on corruption cases<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mere possession or recovery of currency notes from a public official is not enough to substantiate that someone has taken a bribe, SC said.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There has to be conclusive proof that he\/she did make a demand for illegal gratification in order to find him guilty of corruption, the Supreme Court has held.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The verdict<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The judgment concerns Mukhtiar Singh, a police officer in Punjab, imprisoned for taking a bribe of Rs. 2000 in 2009.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The prosecution blamed Mukhatir of taking money as illegal gratification to allegedly exonerate an accused, Sarabjit Singh, another police officer, in a dowry harassment case.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The prosecution argued that Mukhtiar Singh, even threatened Sarabjit and the latter lodged complaint against the SHO with the Vigilance department.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A trap was set and Mukhtiar Singh was allegedly caught having taken the money.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The trial court sentenced him to a year\u2019s imprisonment in the graft case. While the plea was pending in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Mukhtiar Singh died.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His legal heirs continued the fight for him, but eventually failed in the High Court, which confirmed the sentence.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the plea, the Supreme Court held that a mere stray question like that did not confirm the accusation that Mukhtiar Singh had demanded a bribe.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SC for conclusive proof in graft case: \u00a0SC makes proof of demand necessary to give a verdict on corruption cases Context Mere possession or recovery of currency notes from a public official is not enough to substantiate that someone has taken a bribe, SC said. There has to be conclusive proof that he\/she did make&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-for-conclusive-proof-in-graft-case\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SC for conclusive proof in graft case: \u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704946783},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}