A railway parcel clerk caught in a 1995 trap accepting a Rs 100 bribe to book a motorcycle, and convicted in 2004, has had his conviction upheld by the Jharkhand High Court, which found the demand and acceptance of illegal gratification proved on the Neeraj Dutta standard. But given that the case had run for three decades, the appellant is now over 75 and ailing, it was his first offence and he had already lost his job, the Court reduced his sentence to the statutory minimum.
