Rs 100 bribe seems too small: Bombay HC relief to medical officer accused in bribery case
The Bombay High Court dismissed a state government's appeal and upheld a trial court's acquittal of Dr. Anil Shinde, a medical officer, over a Rs 100 bribery allegation from 2007, deeming the amount as ''trivial.'' The court referenced the Prevention of Corruption Act, stating that minor bribes might not necessarily suggest corruption.;
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Mumbai: Noting that an amount of Rs 100 seems to be ''too small'' as a bribe in the year 2007 and more so now, the Bombay High Court recently gave relief to a govenrment medical officer who was facing corruption and bribery charges
A single bench of Justice Jitendra Jain on Tuesday said it was a fit case to be treated as a trivial matter and upheld the trial court order acquitting the medical officer, acquitting a government medical officer in a corruption and bribery case.
The case goes back to the year 2007, when one L T Pingale accused Dr Anil Shinde, the medical officer of a rural hospital at Paud in Maharashtra’s Pune district, of seeking Rs 100 to certify his injuries following an alleged assault by his nephew.
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Pingale complained to the Anti-Corruption Bureau, which laid a trap and caught Shinde red-handed. He was prosecuted under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
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