Early Times Report
Jammu, May 26: Special Judge Anticorruption Jammu Mr. Sanjay Dhar today acquitted Subash Raina then Accounts Assistant Addl.Treasury New Plots Jammu who was caught red-handed by the VOJ who was caught red-handed by the VOJ while he was accepting Rs. 2000/ as illegal gratification from the complainant for releasing family pension in favour of her mother, as VOJ failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt.
The case of prosecution is that on 22.4.2009, complainant Radha Rani lodged a written complaint with Police Station VOJ alleging therein that she has approached accused Subash Chander Raina, Accounts Assistant Addl. Treasury Office Jammu on a number occasions for release of family pension in favour of her mother Smt. Usha Rani but the said Accounts Assistant is delaying the matter on one pretext or the other. It was further alleged in the complaint that accused Subash Chander Raina Accounts Assistant is demanding a bribe of Rs. 2000/ from the complainant for releasing the family pension in favour of her mother. The complainant, instead of paying the bribe amount to accused, approached Vigilance Organization Jammu and lodged the report. Upon this complaint, FIR No. 09/2009 for offences u/s 5(1)(d) r/w S. 5(2) P.C. Act & S. 161 RPC was registered and investigation of the case was handed over to Inspector Tahir Hussain. A trap team was constituted and on 22.4.2009 a trap, against the accused, was laid. During the trap proceedings, it came to the fore that accused, who was posted as Accounts Assistant with Addl. Treasury New Plots Jammu, demanded an amount of Rs. 2000/ as illegal gratification from the complainant for releasing family pension in favour of her mother. The complainant accordingly handed over the bribe amount of Rs. 2000/ to the accused, who after accepting it, kept the same in the register lying in the near by steel rack which was in his official use and from there the bribe amount was recovered by one of the members of trap team.
Special Judge Anticorruption Jammu Mr. Sanjay Dhar after hearing Adv SC Bali appearing for the alleged accused observed that to sum up, from the material on record, it becomes clear that the very genesis of this case is based upon personal grudge and enmity between complainant and accused. As has been already noted, a number of criminal complaints have been lodged against accused prior to lodging of the report which resulted in present charge sheet. It has been stated by Surinder Sharma, Sanjay Nagpal and Ravi Kant Sharma, who were members of the trap team, that accused, immediately after the trap, shouted that complainant had taken revenge upon him for her old enmity by falsely implicating him. With these observations Court acquits the accused from the charges leveled against him. (JNF) |
