Content Provider | Supreme Court of India |
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e-ISSN | 30484839 |
Language | English |
Access Restriction | NDLI |
Subject Keyword | Prevention of Corruption Act 1988: s.13(1)(e) r/w. s.13(2) - Concurrent conviction under |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Law Judgement |
Jurisdiction | India |
Case Type | Appeal |
Court | Supreme Court of India |
Disposal Nature | Appeal Allowed |
Headnote | Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988: s.13(1)(e) rlw. s.13(2) - Concurrent conviction under - If justified- Held: A public servant charged of criminal misconduct has to be proved by the prosecution to be in possession of pecuniary resources or property disproportionate to his known sources of income, at any time during the period of his office - To succeed in a criminal trial, the prosecution has to pitch its case beyond all reasonable doubt and lodge it in the realm of "must be true" category and not in the domain of "may be true" - However, in the instant case the prosecution failed to prove the charge of criminal misconduct against the appellant beyond all reasonable doubt - He is thus entitled to benefit of doubt - Further. on facts, the charge for which the appellant was finally convicted was different from the one with which he was arraigned at the initiation of the trial - This is opposed to the fundamental percepts of a criminal prosecution - Thus, appellants conviction and sentence is set aside. s.13 - Burden of proof - Held: The primary burden to bring home the charge of criminal misconduct is on the prosecution to establish beyond reasonable doubt that the public servant either himself or through anyone else had at any time, during the period of his office, been in possession of pecuniary resources or property disproportionate to his known sources of income - It is only on 'the discharge of such burden by the prosecution, if the public servant fails to satisfactorily account for the same, he would be in law held guilty of such offence - If prosecution fails to discharge such burden, he would not be required in law to offer any explanation to satisfactorily account therefor. |
Judge | Hon'ble Mr. Justice Amitava Roy |
Neutral Citation | 2017 INSC 718 |
Petitioner | Vasant Rao Guhe |
Respondent | State Of Madhya Pradesh |
SCR | [2017] 8 S.C.R. 570 |
Judgement Date | 2017-08-09 |
Case Number | 1279 |
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