Former Metropolitan Magistrate Gulab Tulsiyani, then posted at the Patiala House district courts, has been held guilty of demanding and accepting bribe as a public servant in violation of the the Prevention of Corruption Act and various provisions of the Indian penal Code.
Tulsiyani faces seven years' jail term as the maximum sentence for the offences proved against him. The court would tomorrow hear arguments on quantum of sentence.
"The post of a judicial officer is a very sensitive post, where decent behaviour, honest approach towards practical dealings are expected irrespective of the fact whether he is functioning in a court or attending his daily routine at his home.
"Society has deep-rooted faith in fair dealing with regard to working of a judicial officer, justice in wide sense is considered as pious act free from unblemished stigma and no person can be expected to do an overt act feeling superior to normal human being," Special CBI Judge V K Maheshwari said, while convicting Tulsiyani.
The convicted former judge, who retired in 1998, was caught accepting Rs 2,000 bribe at his Ramesh Nagar residence here on June 6, 1986 from Ajesh Mittal who had lodged a complaint with the CBI against Tulsiyani's demand of bribe from him.
Mittal had been issued a challan over some illegality involving his firm, Mittal Paints and Chemicals and Tulsiyani had demanded the bribe to hush it up.
