Niranjan Hemchandra Sashittal and another Vs. State of Maharashtra

The Apex Court in para 20 of the citation cited above minced absolutely no words in stating that, "It can be stated without any fear of contradiction that corruption corruption is not to be judged by degree, for corruption mothers disorder, destroys societal will to progress, accelerates undeserved ambitions, kills the consience, jettisons the glory of the institutions , paralyses the economic health of a country , corrodes the sense of civility and that immoral acquisition of wealth destroys the energy of the people believing in honesty, and history records with agony how they have suffered . The only redeeming fact is that collective sensibility respects such suffering as it is in consonance with the constitutional morality .Therefore, the relief for quashing of a trail under the Prevention of Corruption act 1988, has to be considered in above backdrop.