Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 29: Special Judge Anticorruption (CBI cases), Kaneez Fatima today decided two cases of CBI and awarded four years imprisonment and fine of Rs 10 lakh in one case and Rs 4 lakh in second case to Vibihishan Bhagat, Senior Cashier in the office of DyFA/CAO (C) Northern Railway Jammu, who misappropriated Rs 5 lakh and Rs 2 lakh respectively.
According to CBI case, Vibihishan Bhagat during the period 1997 to 1999 entered into a criminal conspiracy with others and misappropriated an amount of Rs 5.90 lakh and Rs 2 lakh by manipulating the entries in the copies of challans.
On this, CBI registered a case under Section 409/467/ 468/477-A RPC and 5(1) read with Section 5(2) of J&K PC Act, 2006 and after completion of investigation challan was presented.
After hearing Senior Public Prosecutor SK Bhat for the CBI and Advocate KK Sharma for the accused person, Special Judge Anticorruption convicted the accused and keeping in view of the painful journey of trial of 11 years as well as the age of the accused, awarded four years imprisonment each in both cases and fine Rs 10 lakh and Rs 4 lakh respectively.
“The amount of fine be deposited within 15 days from today failing which the same shall be realized from the estate of the accused”, the court said and sent the accused to District Jail Jammu for serving the sentence.
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