Ghaziabad, March 23 – A Special CBI Court in Ghaziabad on Monday sentenced a former railway official from Agra to four years in prison for demanding a bribe of Rs 30,000 from a contractor.
The Special Court found Rafi Ahmad, then Chief Yard Master at Agra Cantt Railway Station, guilty under the Prevention of Corruption Act and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on him.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered the case on July 4, 2015, against the accused, according to a statement.
It was alleged that Rafi Ahmad demanded an illegal gratification of Rs 30,000 from the contractor/complainant instead of reducing the penalty imposed on him for not satisfactorily performing the work of loading/unloading of Guard Line Boxes in trains.
The CBI laid a trap and caught the accused red-handed while accepting Rs 5,000 as the first installment of the demanded illegal gratification from the complainant.
After the investigation, the CBI filed a chargesheet against Rafi Ahmad on November 24, 2015.
In a separate case earlier this month, a Special CBI Court in Dehradun sentenced eight officials to two years of rigorous imprisonment along with a total fine of Rs 2.85 lakh in connection with a Rs 55 lakh fraud in the Public Works Department (PWD) in 2003.
Deepak Kumar Verma (LDC), Madan Pal (Mate), Mani Ram (Beldar), Surendra Kumar Kaushik (Driver), Kasim (retired Beldar) of PWD Haridwar, Sukhpal Singh (UDC), Chatar Singh (Roller Driver) of PWD Roorkee, and Palu Das (Assistant Treasury Officer, Treasury Haridwar) were sentenced to two years each, along with the cumulative fine.
The case was originally registered by the CBI on August 9, 2003, following directions issued by the Uttarakhand High Court on May 7, 2003, in a civil writ petition that ordered the transfer of the investigation to the central agency.
