Special CBI Judge Dinesh Kumar Sharma gave jail terms to Executive Engineer Nihal Chand, Assistant Engineer R C Bansal, and Junior Engineer Anil Kumar after convicting them for committing offences of cheating and forgery under the IPC and also those under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The court also awarded two years' jail term to private contractor Gulshan Kumar, owner of M/s Sarvodaya Construction Private Ltd here, who was only convicted for the criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery along with them.
"In the present case, Nihal Chand, R C Bansal and Anil Kumar being public servant abused their position and got pecuniary advantage for Gulshan Kumar by raising forged and fabricated bills.
"Accused persons also entered into conspiracy and cheated the state by dishonestly inducing for making the payment. The accused persons also in the conspiracy committed forgery by preparing a bill i.E. Document for transfer of the money and also used the forged bills as a genuine document," the court said, imposing a cost of Rs 60,000 on three officials and Rs 40,000 on Kumar.
The CBI had alleged that the accused officials, all posted with the Civil Wing of MTNL, had passed two bills totalling Rs 3,98,936 in favour of Kumar on January 21 and September 12, 2003 as "payment" for repair work done at Sanchar Haat in Shakti Nagar here. (More)
