The Punjab and Haryana High Court ruled that simply recovering tainted currency notes does not prove bribery without clear evidence of a demand for a bribe. Parminderjit Singh Sodhi was acquitted due to a lack of unequivocal proof that he solicited or accepted the bribe.
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