The case of the prosecution, according to the evidence let in during the course of trial, is that P.W.1-Syed Shameer Ahmed, the defacto complainant, retired from service on 31.05.1999 as Forest Section Officer of Bhoopalpalli village and that he submitted pension papers in the office of Divisional Forest Officer (North), Warangal, but P.W.1 was not sanctioned pension, as No Due Certificate was to be sent to the said D.F.O office from Forest Range Office, Bhupalpally North. P.W.1 was also sanctioned encashment of 237 days of Earned Leave. Therefore, P.W.1 met the accused officer at Bhoopalpalli and requested him for preparing eligible leave encashment bill and issue No Due certificate for his pension settlement and then the accused officer demanded bribe of Rs.15,000/- from P.W.1 for doing such official favour. On the persuasion of P.W.1, the accused officer also agreed to receive Rs.5,000/- and the balance amount after encashment of eligible Earned Leave bill amount. Be that as it may, as P.W.1- complainant was not willing to pay any bribe to the accused officer, he lodged Ex.P2-complaint before P.W.8-the then Deputy Superintendent of Police, Anti Corruption Bureau, Warangal on 16.5.2000 and on receipt of the said complaint, P.W.8 registered a case in Cr.No.6/ACB-WRL/2000 on 19.5.2000 after getting verified the antecedents of the accused officer, genuineness of complaint, he issued Ex.P15 F.I.R and took up investigation. During the course of investigation, P.W.8 secured the services of P.W.1-complainant as decoy, P.W.2 and another as mediators and after conducting Ex.P9pretrap proceedings, he laid a trap against the accused officer on 19.5.2000 at about 5.30 P.M. at the house of accused officer and during the said trap, the accused officer demanded and accepted tainted amount of Rs.5,000/- from P.W.1 as bribe in pursuance of earlier demands. After receipt of pre-arranged signal from P.W.1, trap party led by P.W.8 rushed into the house of accused officer, conducted chemical tests on both hands and fingers of accused officer, seized M.O.3-tainted amount of Rs.5,000/- from accused officer at his instance, subjected the inner flap of wearing nickker of accused officer to such chemical test and it also yielded positive result and the said nickker was also seized. The versions of accused officer and P.W.1 were incorporated in Ex.P11-post trap proceedings and Ex.P1-file was also seized. All the events of post-trap proceedings were reduced into writing in Ex.P11 by P.W.2 and a copy thereof was served on the accused officer. After examining and recording the statements of the witnesses, collection of Ex.P13-No Due Certificate and after receipt of prosecution sanction orders, charge sheet was filed by P.W.8-D.S.P. against the accused officer for the offences under sections 7 and 13 (1) (d) read with Section 13 (2) of the Act.
