TNN May 18, 2012
NEW DELHI: A trial court has sentenced a DDA official to three years imprisonment for taking Rs 1,000 bribe to allow illegal construction. The court said a public servant cannot expect leniency on the ground that the bribe he took was a very small amount.
"It is pertinent to mention here that a person who is caught accepting bribe cannot be dealt with lenient view on the ground that he accepted a very small amount, for the reason that when the accused was caught, this might have been one of those innumerable occasions when he had accepted bribe," Special CBI Judge Dinesh Kumar Sharma said while also imposing a fine of Rs 50,000 on the convict.
The convict Raj Kumar Verma, who worked in Delhi Development Authority in 2009, had demanded bribe to allow unauthorized construction at the premises of Nanhe Ram, a businessman.
The Special Judge also said the accused cannot benefit by the plea that the construction was unauthorized as that does not give him a right to demand bribe. "Be that as it may be, even if the complainant (Nanhe Ram) was raising unauthorized construction, it would not give the right to the accused or anybody to ask for the bribe.
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-05-18/delhi/31764546_1_bribe-illegal-construction-dda-official
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