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A labourer who gave ₹20 to a tribunal clerk for getting a papers related to his lawsuit has been acquitted from the ‘bribery case’ aft waging ineligible conflict for 13 years.
When a labourer from a colony adjacent Kalakkad, who had filed a lawsuit successful Nanguneri sub-court, had to get a papers relating to his case, helium approached tribunal clerk Mariappan successful June 2012. Since Mariappan allegedly demanded ₹20, the labourer gave the wealth to the clerk.
As the Magistrate saw the labourer giving wealth to the clerk, the judicial officer, treating it arsenic a lawsuit of bribery, ordered registration of lawsuit against some Mariappan and the plaintiff.
Even arsenic the proceedings of the lawsuit was going connected for the past 13 years successful the Special Court for Anti-Corruption Cases successful Tirunelveli, Mariappan passed away.
When the lawsuit came up for hearing, it was argued that the labourer, believing that helium was asked to springiness ₹20 arsenic mandatory interest for getting the document, gave the wealth to Mariappan and that helium did not cognize that it was so bribe.
Accepting it, the lawsuit against the labourer was dismissed precocious arsenic the Judicial Magistrate observed that the labourer did not get immoderate “advantage successful usurpation of law” by giving ₹20, a trivial amount.
