The Madras High Court in its recent order has upheld conviction for a government officer’s wife who was a co-accused in a corruption case along with her husband.
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court observed that “if family members of the accused enjoyed the ill-gotten money, they should suffer as well”, reported The New Indian Express.
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Case:
In 2017, the Tiruchy Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) police had registered a case against one Sakthivel, a former sub-inspector and his wife Deivanayaki under Prevention of Corruption Act, on the charge of accumulation of assets over and above his known sources of income – which was estimated at Rs 6.77 lakh during the check period of January 1, 1992, to December 31, 1996.
However, during the pendency of the case, the husband died and a Special Court for Prevention of Corruption Cases court convicted his wife and sentenced her to one-year imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 1,000.
The wife’s counsel challenged this order in the High Court arguing that factors which proved that her husband’s assets were more than his income were not considered by the trial court.
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Madras High Court
Justice K K Ramakrishnan of the Madras High Court upheld the trial court order and refused to set aside conviction of the wife in this case. The High Court observed that corruption starts from home and if the home-maker is a party to corruption, then there won’t be any end to it.
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Justice Ramakrishnan added:
It is the duty of the wife of a public servant to discourage her husband from receiving bribe. The basic philosophy of life is to stay away from bribes.
If anyone accepts one, he and his family will be ruined. If they enjoyed the ill-gotten money, they should suffer. Corruption in this country is unimaginably pervasive. Corruption starts from home and if the home-maker is a party to corruption, there is no end to corruption.
The life of Deivanayaki was a bed of roses because of the ill-gotten money, hence she should face the consequence — namely conviction.
The High Court did not accept the wife’s arguments on the source of mismatched assets, thereby, concluded the matter refusing to interfere in the conviction imposed by Trial Court.
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