KOTA: An anti-corruption court docket right here on Wednesday sentenced a former Rajasthan Administrative Service officer and three others in a 19-year-old corruption case.
The three others, who had been sentenced by Particular Decide Pramod Kumar Malik of the ACB court docket, included two former staff of the Kota municipal company and a metropolis resident.
The court docket additionally slapped a fantastic of Rs 21 lakh on the 4 convicts.
The convicts included former RAS officer Okay L Meena, KMC’s former junior engineer Babbu Gupta and clerk Jagannath in addition to Kota resident Hari Singh, Assistant Director (Prosecution) Ashok Kumar Joshi mentioned.
Through the trial of the 19-year-old case, 4 different accused within the case died as a consequence of which the case in opposition to them was dropped, he mentioned.
“If public servants flip corrupt, the roots of a democratic nation additionally weaken and have an effect on its improvement,” the court docket noticed whereas convicting the 4 accused.
The case in opposition to the convicts pertained to the sale of presidency land by dishonest and forgery of paperwork and was lodged by the Anti-Corruption Bureau in 2002, the ADP mentioned.
