JAMMU, July 21: High Court has upheld the judgment dated 26.09.2018 passed by the Special Judge Anticorruption, Srinagar whereby one Ghulam Mehdi Pandit (then Clerk in DC Office Budgam) has been convicted under Prevention of Corruption Act and Section 161 of RPC.
Vide the impugned judgment, the appellant was sentenced to undergo simple imprisonment for a period of one year and to pay a fine of Rs 15000 for offence under Section 5(1) read with 5(2) of the PC Act.
The appellant was further sentenced to undergo six months simple imprisonment for offence punishable under Section 161 RPC and to pay a fine of Rs 2500. After hearing both the sides, Justice Sanjay Dhar observed, the plea of alibi setup by the appellant/accused is nothing but an afterthought to wriggle out of the charge.
court added that I do not find any ground to interfere in the well-reasoned and lucid judgment passed by the trial court. Accordingly, the impugned judgment of conviction and sentence passed by the trial court was upheld and the appeal dismissed.
Justice Dhar said that bail and surety bonds of the appellant/accused are cancelled and he is directed to surrender before the trial court within a period of three weeks from the date of this judgment.
Upon surrender by the appellant, the trial court shall send him to jail for serving the balance sentence. In case the appellant/accused does not surrender before the trial court within the aforesaid period, coercive measures shall be taken for securing his presence before the court.
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