Apex Court rules that Municipal Councilors are public
servants and can be tried under Prevention of Corruption Act.
In
another significant ruling, Supreme Court said Municipal Councillors come under
the category of public servants and they can be prosecuted for their corrupt
activities under the Prevention of Corruption, PC Act. The court said, the PC
Act, 1988 envisages widening of the scope of the definition of the expression
"public servant" and it was brought in force to purify public administration.
A
Bench of Justices C K Prasad and J S Khehar was deciding an appeal by Manish
Trivedi who as a Municipal Councillor from Banswara in Rajasthan and a member
of the Municipal Board in 2000, was accused of taking bribe and named in a
charge sheet under the PC Act.
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