"Rs 100 Too Small A Bribe": Officer Accused Of Corruption Gets Court Relief
NDTV
Mr Pingale complained to the Anti-Corruption Bureau, which laid a trap and caught Dr Shinde red-handed. He was prosecuted under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
An amount of Rs 100 seems to be "too small" as a bribe in the year 2007 and more so now, the Bombay High Court has said while acquitting a government medical officer in a corruption and bribery case.
A single bench of Justice Jitendra Jain on Tuesday said it was a fit case to be treated as a trivial matter and upheld the trial court order acquitting the medical officer.
In 2007, one LT Pingale accused Dr Anil Shinde, the medical officer of a rural hospital at Paud in Maharashtra's Pune district, of seeking Rs 100 to certify his injuries following an alleged assault by his nephew.
