Bengaluru: A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in the city sentenced three South Western Railway (SWR) officials to four years of rigorous imprisonment with a fine of Rs 2.4 lakh in a case related to fraudulent payments causing loss to the railways.
The convicted officials are M Nagaraj, then office superintendent, dispatch section; Shadab Khan, then personnel branch clerk; Padmini, then accounts assistant (retd).
An official release said on April 27, 2016, CBI registered a case against the officials for conspiring to cause loss to the railways by making fraudulent payments to employees working in the office of senior section engineer, Penukonda, Andhra Pradesh. "They fraudulently included tuition fees and hostel subsidy reimbursement against the names of 16 employees working in the office, without bills, receipts or applications in edit lists and salary bills. They caused a loss of Rs 18 lakh to SWR," the release stated.