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Asst jailor gets two-year imprisonment

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Press Trust of India Patna
A former assistant jailor was today sentenced to two years of imprisonment by a special court here in a 19-year-old bribery case.

The special vigilance court judge B K Rai sentenced former assistant jailor of Barh divisional jail Nageshwar Prasad to two years imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 for accepting a bribe of Rs 5,000 in 1994.

Prasad took the money from a supplier of necessary items in the jail for clearing the pending bill.

He was arrested on the supplier's complaint.

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First Published: May 29 2013 | 2:26 PM IST

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