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Supreme Court<\/strong>: The bench of Dinesh Maheshwari and JB Pardiwala<\/strong>*, JJ has explained the true import of Section 13(1)(e) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 \u00a0and has held that, under the said Section, it is for the prosecution to establish that the accused was in possession of properties disproportionate to his known sources of income but the term \u201cknown sources of income\u201d<\/em> would mean the sources known to the prosecution and not the sources known to the accused and within the knowledge of the accused. The onus on the accused is to account satisfactorily for the money\/assets in his hands.<\/p>\n

The Court stressed that the expression \u201cknown source of income\u201d is not synonymous with the words \u201cfor which the public servant cannot satisfactorily account\u201d under Section 13(1)(e) of the 1988 Act and have different meaning, scope and requirements.<\/p>\n

While the expression “known sources of income” refers to the sources known to the prosecution, the expression “for which the public servant cannot satisfactorily account” refers to the onus or burden on the accused to satisfactorily explain and account for the assets found to be possessed by the public servant. This burden is on the accused as the said facts are within his special knowledge. Section 106 of the Evidence Act, 1872 applies.<\/p>\n

The explanation to Section 13(1)(e) of the 1988 Act is a procedural Section which seeks to define the expression “known sources of income” as sources known to the prosecution and not to the accused. The explanation applies and relates to the mode and manner of investigation to be conducted by the prosecution, it does away with the requirement and necessity of the prosecution to have an open, wide and rowing investigation and enquire into the alleged sources of income which the accused may have. It curtails the need and necessity of the prosecution to go into the alleged sources of income which a public servant may or possibly have but are not legal or have not been declared.<\/p>\n

The first part of the explanation refers to income received from legal\/lawful sources. The second part of the explanation does away with the need and requirement for the prosecution to conduct an open ended or rowing enquiry or investigation to find out all alleged\/claimed known sources of income of an accused who is investigated under the 1988 Act. The prosecution can rely upon the information furnished by the accused to the authorities under law, rules and orders for the time being applicable to a public servant. No further investigation is required by the prosecution to find out the known sources of income of the accused public servant.<\/p>\n

The undeclared alleged sources are by their very nature expected to be known to the accused only and are within his special knowledge. The accused, however, cannot make an attempt to discharge this onus upon him at the stage of Section 239 of the CrPC. At the stage of Section 239 of the CrPC, the Court has to only look into the prima facie case and decide whether the case put up by the prosecution is groundless.<\/p>\n

[State v. R. Soundirarasu, 2022 SCC OnLine SC 1150<\/b><\/a>, decided on 05.09.2022]<\/p>\n

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*Judgment by: Justice JB Pardiwala<\/h4>\n
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For State: AAG V. Krishnamurthy<\/p>\n

For accused: Senior Advocate Dr. K. Radhakrishnan<\/p>\n

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