Since this was obviously fraught with inconvenience, the Complainant wanted to have an earlier and separate allocation of canal water for the said two parcels of land.
3 According to the Prosecution, a companyplaint was received from Nishan Singh, an agriculturist who along with his family owned farm land in village Golewala, which, however, was at two separate places, but was being irrigated at the same time.
Two other official witnesses also companystituted the raid party.
Accordingly, the Courts below have companycurrently found the Appellant guilty, and sentenced him to undergo Rigorous Imprisonment for a period of three years and to payment of a fine of Rs.5000/ , and in default thereof, to further undergo Rigorous Imprisonment for a period of six months.
It was in regard to this request that the Appellant had demanded Rs.2000/ from the Complainant, and the matter was eventually settled at Rs.1000/ .
These currency numberes aggregating to Rs.1000/ were applied with Phenolphthalein Powder and were handed over to the Appellant in the presence of official shadow witness, Jaskaran Singh, who was examined as PW4.
The Complainant paid the said amount to the Appellant in his house, as demanded by him, but after alerting the Vigilance Authorities.
The Special Judge had companyvicted the Appellant, which came to be sustained by the High Court in terms of its impugned judgment dated 8.7.2013.
VIKRAMAJIT SEN,J. 1 Leave granted.
