In Brief
Two public servants (a tax officer and another official) were convicted of demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs. 800 from a shopkeeper in relation to the return of seized account books. The trial court sentenced them to two years' rigorous imprisonment; the High Court maintained the conviction but reduced the sentence to one year. On appeal, the Supreme Court upheld the convictions, finding that the complainant's evidence was adequately corroborated by multiple witnesses and the forensic test results. The Court dismissed the appeals, holding there was no ground to disturb the concurrent findings of the courts below."
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