TNN | Jul 26, 2012
NEW DELHI: A retired senior officer of the DDA was sentenced to three years of rigorous imprisonment by a trial court for taking a bribe of Rs 2,000 for expeditious execution of conveyance deed of a flat.
Special CBI judge Dharmesh Sharma sentenced Gurcharan Singh (64), former assistant director of DDA in its MIG (H) section, after convicting him under various provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act.
"The accused Gurcharan demanded and accepted the bribe, while the accused peon J B Joshi accepted the bribe for and on behalf of Gurucharan in pursuance of a criminal conspiracy," the judge said, and imposed a penalty of Rs 75,000 on the convict.
The court also sentenced Joshi to a year in jail, besides imposing a fine of Rs 15,000 on the DDA peon. His sentence was set off against the period he remained in jail during the trial.
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