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A peculiar CBI tribunal successful Thane has acquitted a erstwhile cardinal authorities worker accused of accepting a bribe of ₹800, observing that specified betterment of currency notes without implicit impervious of a request was insufficient to clasp him guilty.
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Special Judge D.S. Deshmukh connected Thursday (May 28, 2026) acquitted Arvind Motiram Sawant, who worked arsenic a clerk successful the bureau of the Registrar of Companies (ROC) astatine CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai, astatine the clip of the alleged offence successful August 2006.
According to the prosecution, the complainant had approached the ROC to urgently get certified copies of the incorporation documents and the Memorandum of Association of a backstage institution to initiate ineligible proceedings against unauthorised constructions.
It was alleged that Mr. Sawant demanded ₹1,000 to expedite the process, which was aboriginal brought down to ₹800. After being alerted, the CBI laid a trap connected August 22, 2006, and recovered “tainted” currency notes from the accused.
However, during cross-examination, the defence established that the accused was not the last signing authorization for issuing certified copies and lacked the jurisdiction to merchandise documents successful the custody of the ROC.
The Court besides noted that the modular authoritative protocol progressive depositing fees via a challan, and the discussed magnitude could person been related to the State’s authoritative challan charges alternatively than a idiosyncratic bribe.
It besides said that the physics footprint produced by the prosecution did not straight implicate the accused.
“The grounds of betterment of tainted magnitude from an accused erstwhile grounds of the erstwhile request is lacking, oregon is not satisfactory, would beryllium wholly insufficient to clasp the accused blameworthy for having committed an offence,” the Court said, acquitting Mr. Sawant of each charges.
