VIGILANCE MANUAL VOLUME III - AP Online

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3. For a Digest of Case Law on containing corruption, the
pride of place goes to the decision in the case of State of Madhya
Pradesh vs. Shri Ram Singh, 2000 Cri.L.J. SC 1401, where the
Supreme Court held that the Prevention of Corruption Act is a social
legislation and should be liberally construed so as to advance this
object. Mention should be made here of the decision in the case of
Gangadhar Behera vs. State of Orissa, 2002(7) Supreme 276
(decided on 10-10-2002), where the Supreme Court reiterated that a
judge does not preside over a criminal trial merely to see that no
innocent man is punished but also to see that a guilty man does not
escape and that miscarriage of justice arises from the acquittal of
the guilty no less than from the conviction of the innocent.
4. There are 551 decisions in all, 356 of the Supreme Court,
141 of the High Courts (29 of them of the Andhra Pradesh High Court)
and 54 decisions of the Central Administrative Tribunal. The decisions
have been selected with great care and are representative of the
case law on the subject, over a period of time. The decisions are
dealt with in a chronological order. A summary of each decision is
furnished with adequate particulars for a meaningful study of the
issues under consideration. The points that emerged have been
highlighted in a Head Note, under a Subject Heading. There are 537
subject headings, 111 of them being alternative headings, which
provide easy access to the various decisions under each subject.
5. A bare list of subject headings is furnished so that one
can pick up at a glance the appropriate subject under study. The list
of subjects is followed by a Subject Index, where a list of relevant
cases is given under each subject.
6. The subjects are grouped together under major headings
like traps and disproportionate assets, witnesses and evidence,
inquiry and inquiry officer, misconduct and penalty, documents,
suspension etc. Again each subject is split up into convenient subheadings.
For example the subject of “trap” is dealt with under 38
sub-headings, like justification of laying a trap, traps which are