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New Delhi: Twenty eight years after he was booked on charges of demanding a bribe of Rs 250, a former Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) official has been acquitted by the Delhi High Court. Justice R.K.
Gauba acquitted Jagan Nath while setting aside a trial court judgement of February 28, 2002 in which he had been convicted for allegedly demanding the bribe for releasing a cow. The trial court had convicted him under the provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act and sentenced him to one-year rigorous imprisonment and fined him Rs 250. Subsequently, the Delhi High Court in 2002 released him on bail, and suspended the sentence. The High Court finally acquitted him of the charge..