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PETITIONER: BADRI RAI & ANOTHER
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE STATE OF BIHAR
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 18/08/1958
BENCH: SINHA, BHUVNESHWAR P. BENCH: SINHA, BHUVNESHWAR P. IMAM, SYED JAFFER
CITATION: 1958 AIR 953 1959 SCR 1141
ACT: Evidence-Conspiracy to bribe a public servant-Statements of co-conspirator-When admissible against others-Indian Penal Code (Act 45 of 1860), ss. 120B, 165A-Indian Evidence Act (1 of 1872), s. 10.
HEADNOTE: The appellants were prosecuted on charges under s. 120B read with s. 165A of the Indian Penal Code, for having conspired to commit the offence of bribing a public servant in connection with the discharge of his public duties. The case against them was that on August 24, 1953, when the Inspector of Police who was in charge of the investigation of a case in which the second appellant was involved, was on his way to the police station, the appellants accosted him on the road and the second appellant asked him to hush up the case for valuable consideration. Some days later, on August 31 the first appellant offered to the Inspector at the police station a packet containing Rs. 500 in currency notes and told him that the second appellant had sent the money through him in pursuance of the talk that they had with him on August 24, as a consideration for hushing up the case. The courts below accepted the evidence ...