suppressio veri, held, deserved serious
condemnation."
23. Usually in trap case sole testimony of complainant
is not sufficient to convict the accused. In various ... Corruption Act, 1988 ---Ss. 7, 13(2) and
13(1)(d)---Trap case for taking bribe---Standard of proof
and corroboration---Reiterated, mere recovery
condition
precedent to embark upon investigation in
trap cases - HELD, In trap cases, the
question of surprise raid is not conceivable
and tenable unlike investigation ... method of surprise raid is totally
impertinent and irrelevant in a trap case.
Otherwise, the Investigating Officers would
become arbitrary and could create
unwarranted commotional
coming to the witnesses in trap cases,
as held in State of Bihar vs. Basawan Singh (AIR
1958 SC 500) by a Bench of Five ... interested evidence is tested which may
vary from case to case and the corroboration in the
case of such interested witnesses
seized. He
acted as a Panch witness in 5-6 trap cases. He read the papers and
deposed in the Court. He acted ... case,
clearly support the prosecution case and there is nothing to doubt his
version. He deposed that he cannot give details of earlier cases
seized. He
acted as a Panch witness in 5-6 trap cases. He read the papers and
deposed in the Court. He acted ... case,
clearly support the prosecution case and there is nothing to doubt his
version. He deposed that he cannot give details of earlier cases
cases and
investigation of the same."
12. Thus, in the above guidelines, he pellucidly stated that the cases
relating to traps and disproportionate assets ... general Police, the Director General has made it clear that the trap
cases and disproportionate assets cases relating to the employees of
co-operative societies
handed over
documents seized in trap case, to IO of this case (Inspector S.P. Singh). Seizure
CBI Case No. 231/2019 CBI vs. Vikram ... investigation such pretrap and posttrap proceedings, search proceedings should be
photographed as well as videographed. In case, the photographs are taken by
conventional
with an ulterior motive to drag the family Members after the trap case against
A1 ended in acquittal. In addition to the said submissions ... With an ulterior motive to drag the family Members after the
trap case against A1 ended in acquittal, . In addition to the
said submissions
Special
Judge (Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 ), Rajnandgaon (CG) in
Special Criminal Case No. 2 of 2017 wherein the said Court has
convicted the appellant ... that
because of starting a criminal case
against the complainant, the trap case
was initiated by the vigilance department
at the instance of the complainant
immediately complainant gave signal to Trap Team and Trap
Team surrounded accused No.2. It is further case of the
prosecution that after seeing ... which Hon'ble High Court
has held that in any trap case evidence of complainant
or trap witness cannot be relied upon
