An IAS officer and four retired public servants have been sentenced to one year jail term by a Delhi court in a corruption cases related to the Rs 4,000 crore cooperative group housing society scam.
Besides these five, one of the convicts, a private person, was also sentenced to three years in jail for the offences of forgery, cheating and using a forged document as genuine under IPC.
Special CBI Judge Vinod Kumar sentenced former Registrar of Cooperative Societies (RCS) Narayan Diwakar, a 1986 batch IAS officer, then senior auditor P K Thirwani, then assistant registrar Yogi Raj, then upper division clerk U S Bhatnagar and then RCS inspecting officer Ram Nath to one year simple imprisonment and slapped a fine of Rs 2,000 each on them.
The court held Diwakar and four ex-public servants guilty of various offences under IPC relating to attempting to cheat, forgery and using forged documents as genuine and under the Prevention of Corruption Act for attempting to commit criminal misconduct.
"...Entire staff/officials of RCS colluded and acted only in one direction i.E fraudulent revival of a society (Radhey Kunj CGHS), which actually was never liquidated," the court said.
"Convicts Narayan Diwakar, Yogi Raj, Ram Nath, P K Thirwani and U S Bhatnagar are...Sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for one year," it said.
Regarding the private person Gokul Chand Aggarwal, the court said he was "head over heals in the conspiracy along with RCS officials in getting the fraudulent revival of the society".
"I sentence the convict Aggarwal...To rigorous imprisonment for three years," the judge said after convicting him for offences committed under various sections of IPC. It also imposed a fine of Rs 3,000 on him.
