Ranchi: A special CBI court in Ranchi on Tuesday sentenced three government officials to three years in prison and imposed a fine of Rs 1.15 lakh on each of them in Rs 1.20-crore bitumen scam that took place in Simdega district between 2004 and 2006.
The court of additional judicial commissioner S K Pandey handed the quantum of punishment to assistant engineer Upendra Kumar Singh and junior engineers Umesh Paswan and Raj Bali Ram under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Prevention of Corruption Act. The sentences ordered under different sections will run concurrently.
The court awarded three years imprisonment to the convicts and imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 each on them under Section 420 (cheating) of IPC. The convicts would have to undergo additional six months of imprisonment on non-payment of the penalty amount.
Additionally, the court also sentenced the convicts to three years in jail and fined them Rs 25,000 each under Section 468 (forgery) of the IPC. Furthermore, the convicts were awarded three-year jail term and fined Rs 25,000 each under relevant section of the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act. The convicts would have to serve six additional months in jail in case of default in payment of fine.
The court also sentenced the convicts to two years in jail and imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 under section 120B of IPC with the condition that they would undergo six additional months in prison in case of default in payment of fine. Besides, the convicts were also sentenced to two years’ imprisonment and fined Rs 20,000 under Section 471 (using as genuine a forged document) of the IPC.
One of the accused, Pawan Kumar Singh, who was also the director of Classic Coal Construction Private Limited, died during the trial. His company had produced 30 fake invoices for 267 metric tonnes of bitumen and received payment worth Rs 1.20 crore from Rural Engineering Organisation in Simdega for a road construction contract. The company was engaged in the construction of 10.9km-long Kurdeg-Kutumakachar road in the district.
Anil Kumar Kanth, the lawyer who represented the accused, said, “The court has granted provisional bail to the convicts to file an appeal in the high court against the conviction and the sentences.”
The case was lodged by CBI after Jharkhand high court passed an order on a PIL seeking probe and lodging of FIRs into the precarious conditions of roads built in the state. Kanth said the CBI later lodged over a dozen cases across the state, including four related to Simdega district. “The scam is related to the period when Ajsu-P chief Sudesh Mahto was the road construction minister in the state,” he said.
The court of additional judicial commissioner S K Pandey handed the quantum of punishment to assistant engineer Upendra Kumar Singh and junior engineers Umesh Paswan and Raj Bali Ram under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Prevention of Corruption Act. The sentences ordered under different sections will run concurrently.
The court awarded three years imprisonment to the convicts and imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 each on them under Section 420 (cheating) of IPC. The convicts would have to undergo additional six months of imprisonment on non-payment of the penalty amount.
Additionally, the court also sentenced the convicts to three years in jail and fined them Rs 25,000 each under Section 468 (forgery) of the IPC. Furthermore, the convicts were awarded three-year jail term and fined Rs 25,000 each under relevant section of the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act. The convicts would have to serve six additional months in jail in case of default in payment of fine.
The court also sentenced the convicts to two years in jail and imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 under section 120B of IPC with the condition that they would undergo six additional months in prison in case of default in payment of fine. Besides, the convicts were also sentenced to two years’ imprisonment and fined Rs 20,000 under Section 471 (using as genuine a forged document) of the IPC.
One of the accused, Pawan Kumar Singh, who was also the director of Classic Coal Construction Private Limited, died during the trial. His company had produced 30 fake invoices for 267 metric tonnes of bitumen and received payment worth Rs 1.20 crore from Rural Engineering Organisation in Simdega for a road construction contract. The company was engaged in the construction of 10.9km-long Kurdeg-Kutumakachar road in the district.
Anil Kumar Kanth, the lawyer who represented the accused, said, “The court has granted provisional bail to the convicts to file an appeal in the high court against the conviction and the sentences.”
The case was lodged by CBI after Jharkhand high court passed an order on a PIL seeking probe and lodging of FIRs into the precarious conditions of roads built in the state. Kanth said the CBI later lodged over a dozen cases across the state, including four related to Simdega district. “The scam is related to the period when Ajsu-P chief Sudesh Mahto was the road construction minister in the state,” he said.
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