ISSUE:
Whether the investigation was conducted without the authority of law?
Whether the presumption under Section 114 of the Indian Evidence Act that the Appellant had accepted the sum as a motive or reward should not be drawn unless the prosecution proved that the amount was paid as a bribe?
Whether the presumption was rebutted by the Appellant's explanation that what was paid to him was the return of a loan?
RULE:
Section 114 of the Evidence Act states that the Court may presume the existence of any fact which it thinks likely to have happened, regard being had to the ordinary course of natural events, human conduct, and public and private business, in their relation to the facts of the particular case.