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2.4.On entering the office of the accused, the de-facto complainant met the accused. At that time, the accused asked him as to whether he has brought the money. The de-facto complainant took the money from his pocket, which was coated with Phenolphthalein, and handed it over to the accused, who received the same and kept it in his shirt pocket. Thereafter, on enquiry by the de-facto complainant with regard to the receipt for payment of Rs.7700/- towards fee for temporary service connection, the accused asked him to wait for half an hour and when he was about to leave the place, the Inspector of Assessment also demanded a sum of Rs.50/- from the de-facto complainant and he has also given the said amount. Thereafter, http://www.judis.nic.in the de-facto complainant and P.W.3 came out of the office and as per the prearranged signal, the de-facto complainant pulled the left side of his in-shirt out, and seeing the signal, the trap laying party reached the office of the accused and after ascertaining as to what happened inside the office of the accused, P.W.7, along with P.W.3 and the de-facto complainant entered the office and on the accused, being identified by the de-facto complainant, P.W.7 proceeded to enquire the accused. Thereafter, P.W.7 prepared a solution of Sodium Bi-Carbonate in a bottle and dipped the hands of the accused, the solution turned pink. Thereafter, the bottles were sealed and numbered, which are M.O.s 2 and 3. When P.W.7 enquired the accused as to whether he has received any money, the accused accepted the same and took the money out of his pocket and gave the money to P.W.7. P.W.7, prepared one more bottle of Sodium Bi-Carbonate solution and dipped the accused's shirt's left side pocket and on performing the said act, the solution turned pink. The said bottle was also sealed and numbered, which is M.O.4. The shirt was seized under seizure mahazar and marked as Ex.P-4. http://www.judis.nic.in 2.5.P.W.7 enquired the accused about the money received by him from the de-facto complainant for which the accused replied yes and took the money from his shirt pocked and given to P.W.7. P.W.7 asked P.W.3 and Saikdildhar to check the currency numbers with the list already prepared and on checking the currency, the numbers tallied. When enquired with the accused, as to the purpose for which he had received the money from the de-facto complainant, the accused stated that only at the instance of one Thiruppathi, Assistant Junior Engineer, he had received the money from the de-facto complainant. The requisite mahazars were prepared in which the accused affixed his signature. Thereafter, P.W.7 took the accused to his residence and conducted a search. However, no materials were seized from his residence. A mahazar was prepared in this regard by P.W.7 in which witnesses affixed their signatures and the accused also signed the said mahazar and registers. Returning back to the office of the accused, P.W.7 seized the application given by the de-facto complainant and also seized the documents relating to the renewal of temporary service connection under the cover of mahazar. The accused http://www.judis.nic.in was arrested and remanded to judicial custody. P.W.7, recorded the statement of the witnesses. P.W.8, the then Inspector, Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Police Station, Madurai, gave requisition, Ex.P-6, to the Court for sending the material objects for chemical examination. Accordingly, the material objects, viz., the bottles containing the solution and the seized currencies were sent for chemical analysis and the report, Ex.P-5, was received. On completion of investigation, P.W.8 filed the final report against the accused charging him for the offences under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) r/w. 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 [hereinafter referred to as 'PC Act'].