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Karnataka <\/strong> High Court:<\/strong> While passing the order in a revision petition filed with a prayer to set aside the order passed by the Special Court, a Single Judge Bench of Rathnakala, J. held that the order of the Court below was a well-reasoned order not warranting revisional jurisdiction of the High Court.<\/p>\n

The petitioner, a Chartered Accountant, was accused of assisting in taking bribe by the Income Tax Assessing Officer and was charged for offences punishable under Ss. 7 and 8 read with S. 13(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act and S. 120-B of IPC.<\/p>\n

Learned counsel for the petitioner, inter alia submitted that the petitioner was not a public servant and does not fall within the purview of the PC Act. The learned Special Judge disagreed with the contentions of the petitioner-Accused No. 2, and opined that prima facie case was disclosed to suspect that the petitioner-Accused No. 2 had committed the offence under S. 120-B of IPC and S. 8 of the PC Act.<\/p>\n

The High Court after perusing S. 8 of the PC Act along with the definition of public servant as contemplated by the definition clause (c) of S. 2 of the Act, held that the words \u2018Whoever\u2019 and \u2018for himself or any other person\u2019 as accruing in S. 8 covers persons other than public servants. It was also found on perusing the records that the petitioner made demand for bribe on behalf of the first accused.<\/p>\n

The Court held that the impugned order was a well reasoned order passed by the Special Judge and there were no grounds to interfere with the same by exercising the revisional jurisdiction. Accordingly, the revision petition was dismissed. [H. Naginchand Kincha v. CBI,\u00a0 2017 SCC OnLine Kar 2171<\/a>, dated 13.09.2017]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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