https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=188241 In bribery prosecutions, a complainant or trap witness is not automatically to be treated as an approver; the court must assess whether the witness is an accomplice, partisan witness, or victim, and may act on the evidence if it is sufficiently corroborated, including by circumstantial evidence. Applying that approach, the Court found the demand by the first accused and receipt of money by the second accused adequately supported by the surrounding circumstances and independent witnesses, so the convictions for corruption and conspiracy were sustained. On sentence, the age of the offences, prolonged proceedings, and some incarceration already undergone justified leniency, so the custodial term was reduced to the period already served while the fine and default clause were maintained. en-us Tue, 21 Mar 1995 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 22 Nov 2016 18:28:38 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=188241 In bribery prosecutions, a complainant or trap witness is not automatically to be treated as an approver; the court must assess whether the witness is an accomplice, partisan witness, or victim, and may act on the evidence if it is sufficiently corroborated, including by circumstantial evidence. Applying that approach, the Court found the demand by the first accused and receipt of money by the second accused adequately supported by the surrounding circumstances and independent witnesses, so the convictions for corruption and conspiracy were sustained. On sentence, the age of the offences, prolonged proceedings, and some incarceration already undergone justified leniency, so the custodial term was reduced to the period already served while the fine and default clause were maintained. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 21 Mar 1995 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=188241