A scientist-cum-textile engineer has been acquitted by a court here of the charge of accepting bribe for clearing a sample of electrical cables relating to Indo-Pak border lightning project.<\/p>\n
Special Judge Pradeep Chaddah said the CBI case does not “generate confidence” as the “holes in the evidence are too big and unbridgeable” to prove the charges of accepting a bribe of Rs 5,000 against Avinash Kumar, a scientist and Textile Engineer at the National Test House at Ghaziabad.<\/p>\n
“The holes in the evidence are too big and unbridgeable… The story of the prosecution does not generate confidence. Accused was a qualified Textile Engineer and had apparently nothing to do with testing of electric cables.<\/p>\n
“This leads me to hold that CBI has failed to prove its case under section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act beyond all shadows of doubt,” the judge said while acquitting Kumar.<\/p>\n
According to the CBI, Kumar had allegedly demanded a sum of Rs 7,500 from the complainant R S Guleria in 1994 to give his approval to a sample of the electric cables belonging to a company which was being represented by the complainant’s firm.<\/p>\n
During the trial, Guleria had told the court that an approval from National Test house was necessary to procure an order for an Indo-Pak border flood lightning project.<\/p>\n
He had alleged that Kumar had agreed to accept Rs 5,000, after he had negotiated with him.<\/p>\n
During the trial, CBI had claimed that it had caught the accused red handed while accepting the bribe from Guleria here on July 16, 1994.<\/p>\n
Kumar had argued in the court that since he was a textile engineer he had nothing to do with the testing of electric cables and he had been falsely implicated in the case.<\/p>\n
The court, however, acquitted Kumar by giving him the benefit of doubt after going through the evidence produced before it by the CBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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