Supreme Court jails retired official caught taking Rs 500 bribe 30 years ago

Bengaluru: Three decades after he was caught red-handed accepting a bribe of Rs 500, a retired village accountant has been sent to jail, with the
Supreme Court
overturning his acquittal by the Karnataka high court.
Nagesh Dondu Shivangekar, now in his 70s, was taken into custody and sent to Hindalga prison, Belagavi district, following the apex court's April 16 order, which reinstated the one-year rigorous imprisonment sentence handed down by a trial court in 2006.
The case dates back to Jan 1995, when one Laxman Katambale applied for amendment to mutation entries in Belagavi revenue records pertaining to agricultural land partitioned among him and his brothers.
Laxman later approached Nagesh, the then village accountant at Kadoli, to check on the status of his application. Nagesh claimed he had not received any application and asked Laxman to submit a fresh one.
On April 3, 1995, Laxman filed a new application, after which Nagesh demanded a bribe of Rs 2,000 to process it. Laxman initially paid Rs 1,500 in two installments and agreed to pay the remaining Rs 500 after the work was done.
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However, he later approached Lokayukta police and filed a complaint on April 7, 1995. Acting on the complaint, a trap was laid and Nagesh was caught red-handed while accepting the final Rs 500 instalment.
On June 14, 2006, a trial court convicted Nagesh, sentencing him to one year of rigorous imprisonment with a fine of Rs 500. However, the Karnataka high court overturned the conviction on March 9, 2012, calling the trial court's findings "highly perverse" and doubting the credibility of the prosecution witnesses on the question of demand and acceptance of the bribe.
Lokayukta police challenged the acquittal in the Supreme Court, which reviewed the evidence and found it reliable and corroborative of the prosecution's case. It ruled that the case was proven beyond reasonable doubt and held that the high court had erred in setting aside the trial court's judgment. With that, Nagesh's long reprieve came to an end — thirty years after the offence, he is now behind bars.

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