Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 6: State High Court has set-aside the conviction awarded by the Special Judge Anticorruption Srinagar and acquitted Ghulam Ali Dar, the then Executive Engineer, in Disproportionate Assets case.
The judgment was passed in an appeal filed by Ghulam Ali Dar, who had challenged impugned judgement and sentence passed on 31st May 2011 by the Special Judge, Anticorruption.
After hearing both the State, Justice M K Hanjura observed, “I have carefully examined the witnesses adduced by the appellant/accused before the Trial Court. The appellant has succeeded in furnishing the explanation as regards the source of income. Even I find ample support for his explanation in the prosecution evidence itself”.
“The evidence of the prosecution witnesses clearly supports the explanation given by the appellant. The appellant had thus, discharged the burden of explaining the sources of those amounts. The Supreme Court has held that even non-mention in the property statement of a public servant would have no consequence and is immaterial”, High Court said.
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