Shridhar Chavan

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Charge:	Bribery (including public corruption)
Sentence:	1 year
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Year Crime:	2010
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Year Cleared:	2015
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	India
County or Region of Crime:	Maharashtra
City of Crime:	Mumbai
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Shridhar Chavan was a clerk of the Bombay High Court wrongly convicted of accepting a bribe on October 11, 2010 in Mumbai, India. Chavan offered an entrapment defense to the prosecutions claim that he accepted a bribe of Rs 1,000 to get an advocate's case placed for a hearing before the High Court immediately. After his conviction, Chavan was sentenced to one year in prison. On October 13, 2015 the Bombay High Court quashed Chavan's conviction, stating that: "Courts have taken great caution in ascertaining the nature and type of complainants in deciding whether an accused is guilty or not. The one who mischievously sets bait to a public servant and then traps them after they have acted on the luring of such complainant is recognised as a 'fishing complainant', Such traps are deprecated as practically amounting to abetment of an offence and artificially creating a crime. In such cases, it would be the duty of the court to properly scrutinise the evidence of the complainant to ascertain the reliability of his claim and to unmask his ulterior intentions,""
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Innocence Proved By:	"On October 13, 2015 the Bombay High Court set aside Chavan's conviction and one-year sentence."
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Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"HC quashes conviction of court clerk in bribe case, By Press Trust of India (Mumbai), Business Standard, October 25, 2015"
Information Location 1:	http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/hc-quashes-conviction-of-court-clerk-in-bribe-case-115102500307_1.html
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Shridhar Chavan

Charge:

Bribery (including public corruption)

Sentence:

1 year

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

2010

Year Convicted:

Year Cleared:

2015

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

India

County or Region of Crime:

Maharashtra

City of Crime:

Mumbai

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"On October 13, 2015 the Bombay High Court set aside Chavan's conviction and one-year sentence."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

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Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Other

Information Source 1:

"HC quashes conviction of court clerk in bribe case, By Press Trust of India (Mumbai), Business Standard, October 25, 2015"

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http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/hc-quashes-conviction-of-court-clerk-in-bribe-case-115102500307_1.html

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