New Delhi, December 15: More than 17 years after he was caught accepting a bribe of Rs 50, the Supreme Court today upheld the one-year sentence imposed under the Prevention of Corruption Act on an municipal body employee of Tamil Nadu.
Kootha Perumal, an employee of Pudukottai Municipality, was caught on August 23, 1993, by Anti Corruption Bureau sleuths for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 50 from the complainant Nayinar Mohammed, for issuing a tax certificate to enable him obtain a loan from a finance company.
“We are of the considered opinion that the trial court as well as the High Court have analyzed the entire evidence and clearly held that a demand was definitely made by the appellant for delivery of the tax certificate,” a bench of justices B Sudershan Reddy and Surinder Singh Nijjar said in their judgement.
–Agencies