14 years on, 1,600 bribe will get ITI clerk three years in jail | Ahmedabad Information

Ahmedabad: Fourteen years after he was caught accepting a bribe of Rs 1,600, a senior clerk of ITI Modasa was sentenced to 3 years of rigorous imprisonment by a neighborhood courtroom.The courtroom of the second extra classes choose, Modasa, on Thursday, convicted Bhogilal Patel, then a Class-III senior clerk at ITI Modasa, in a case registered by the Sabarkantha ACB police station in 2011 beneath the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. The courtroom additionally imposed a fantastic of Rs 3,000 on the convict.

Based on the order, Patel was awarded three years’ rigorous imprisonment and a fantastic of Rs 1,000 beneath Part 7 of the Act. In default of cost, he must bear a further six months of straightforward imprisonment. He was additional sentenced to 1 yr’s rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs 2,000. The sentences will run concurrently.The case dates again to July 2011, when the complainant, an teacher related to an ITI course run via Samarpan Schooling Belief in Talod in Sabarkantha, approached the accused for examination receipts of 23 college students. The clerk allegedly demanded Rs 200 per pupil, totalling Rs 4,600, and threatened that the scholars’ outcomes would endure if the quantity was not paid.The complainant initially paid Rs 3,000 and later approached the Anti-Corruption Bureau. Appearing on the grievance, the ACB laid a entice on July 30, 2011. Patel was caught red-handed whereas accepting the remaining Rs 1,600 within the presence of panch witnesses. After contemplating oral and documentary proof throughout the trial, the courtroom pronounced the ultimate order, bringing the long-pending corruption case to a detailed.