ROOP CHAND vs STATE

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$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Reserved on: 6th August, 2025 Pronounced on: 17th September, 2025 + CRL.A. 276/2011 ROOP CHAND .....Appellant Through: Mr. Amit Shrivastava, Adv. versus STATE .....Respondent Through: Ms. Priyanka Dalal, APP for the State. SI Bheem Singh, P.S. ACB. + CRL.A. 292/2011 RAJESH KUMAR @ RAJU .....Appellant Through: Mr. Harshit Jain, Mr. Rahul Kumar and Mr. Abhishek Chaudhary, Advocates. versus STATE GOVT OF NCT DELHI .....Respondent Through: Ms. Priyanka Dalal, APP for the State. SI Bheem Singh, P.S. ACB. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AMIT SHARMA JUDGMENT AMIT SHARMA, J. 1. The present appeals under Section 374(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, (for short, ‘CrPC’) have been filed assailing the impugned Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:NEETI KUMARI SHARMA CRL.A. 276/2011& CRL.A. 292/2011. Page 1 of 25 Signing Date:18.09.2025 15:48:31 common judgment of conviction dated 07.02.2011 and order on sentence dated 11.02.2011, passed by the learned Special Judge (ACB), Tis Hazari Court, Delhi, whereby the present appellants were convicted in CC No. 22/07 arising out of FIR No. 54/2006, under Sections 7, 13(1)(d) & 12 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, (for short, ‘PC Act) read with Section 120B of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short, ‘IPC’), registered at P.S. Anti-Corruption Branch in the matter of State vs. Roop Chand and Rajesh Kumar @ Raju. Both the appeals are being disposed of vide this common judgment. For the sake of convenience, appellant-Roop Chand in CRL.A. 276/2011 is hereinafter referred to as “appellant No.1” and appellant-Rajesh Kumar @ Raju in CRL.A. 292/2011 is hereinafter referred to as “appellant No.2”. 2. Vide the aforesaid judgment of conviction and order on sentence, the appellants had been