New Delhi, Nov 30: The Delhi High Court set aside the 2003 conviction of two Delhi Development Authority Junior Engineers in a three-decade-old bribery case, saying the prosecution had failed to prove the essential element of a “demand” for a bribe by the officers.
The court observed that the prosecution’s case was “fraught with blemishes” and relied on a complainant who appeared to be a “stock witness” for the anti-corruption branch.
A bench of Justice Amit Mahajan while acquitting the two held that the officers were entitled to the benefit of the doubt in the present bribery case as the chain of demand, acceptance and recovery had not been proved through credible evidence.
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