Ex-AIIMS doc took bribe, gets 3-year RI

TNN | Feb 7, 2012

NEW DELHI: A trial court has sentenced a former medical superintendent of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to three years' rigorous imprisonment for accepting bribe in 1998 from a private company, which used to supply cotton to the medical institute. 

Special judge B R Kedia convicted 71-year-old Dr R C Anand under various sections of Prevention of Corruption Act and also slapped a fine of Rs 30,000 on him. The court also convicted a former junior store officer at AIIMS for destruction of evidence. Vyas Narayan Singh, 66, was awarded a one-year jail term and was fined Rs 10,000 by the court after the prosecution proved the allegations against the duo "beyond reasonable doubt". 

The case dates back to 1998 when Sageer Ahmed Khan, owner of Shifaa Scientific Fibre, a company which used to supply cotton to AIIMS, filed a complaint with the anti-corruption branch against the duo, alleging that Dr Anand was demanding Rs 5,000 as bribe for the tender he was given. 

He also alleged that Dr Anand demanded a commission of 2% on the entire future contract. The anti-corruption branch then laid down a trap and all the conversations of Dr Anand were recorded with the complainant. 

Dr Anand was arrested while accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000.

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Ex-Addil Commissioner of Income Tax sent to jail for 4 yrs

New Delhi, Feb 1, 2012, (PTI):

A former Additional Commissioner of Income Tax, arrested by CBI for demanding Rs one lakh as bribe for clearing a tax return matter, has been sentenced to four years in jail by a Delhi court.

Special CBI Judge Talwant Singh also imposed a fine of Rs four lakh on convict H A Siddiqui in the graft case registered against him in 2003 on a complaint by a chartered accountant M M Sachdeva.

"Prosecution (CBI) has been successful in proving that accused H A Siddiqui had demanded bribe of Rs one lakh from R P Katyal through his CA M M Sachdeva who is the complainant in this case.

"...The conversation recorded in office of the accused shows that demand of bribe was made by the accused in clear words and place of acceptance was to be fixed later on as he had taken the mobile phone number of Katyal," the court said.

According to CBI, Sachdeva had filed Katyal's income tax return for 2000-01 and it was selected for scrutiny assessment and a notice in this regard was received by Katyal on October 25, 2002.

Siddiqui started sending summons to them in this regard and called Katyal to pay Rs one lakh bribe, the agency said.

It said a trap team was constituted and it apprehended Siddiqui and one M C Gupta, who was a prosecution witness in the case, at the spot and money was recovered from the polybag carried by Gupta.

CBI had registered the FIR in the case on April 2, 2003, and had filed its chargesheet against Siddiqui in November that year.

During the trial, Siddiqui claimed innocence saying Sachdeva and Gupta, both chartered accountants, had tried to get undue advantage from him and when he refused to do so, they implicated him in a false case.

The court, however, said CBI has proved its case against Siddiqui beyond reasonable doubt.

The court also relied on reports regarding identification of voices saying that it has been proved beyond reasonable doubt that the voice samples were of Siddiqui, Sachdeva and Katyal.

"Report regarding identification of voices in the questioned recording as well as the specimen recording are proved beyond reasonable doubt being of accused (Siddiqui), the complainant and Katyal," it said.

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Senior IAS officer held in Rs 125-cr scam

TNN Feb 2, 2012

KOLKATA: The CID arrested additional secretary Debaditya Chakraborty on Wednesday for his alleged involvement in a 125-crore scam, the first time such a senior IAS officer has been arrested in the state. R M Jamir, a retired IAS officer who was the director of a PSU at the centre of the scam, has also been held.

The arrests were confirmed by DIG, CID (operations) K Jayaraman. The two will be produced in court on Thursday, he said. Several agencies, including the detective department of Kolkata Police, were probing the scam for quite some time but had not received permission to arrest the IAS officer , sources said.

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