Lucknow, March 28 – A Special CBI Court in Lucknow on Saturday sentenced a former CRPF official and two personnel to three years of rigorous imprisonment with a total fine of Rs 1.2 lakh in a corruption case related to the recruitment of constables in the paramilitary force.
The CBI Court (West), Lucknow, found former Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Vinod Kumar Sharma and two CRPF personnel, Satyavir Singh and Tirath Pal Chaturvedi, guilty under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered the case on February 23, 2009, based on information against Sharma and others.
The CBI stated that Sharma had entered into a criminal conspiracy with private individuals to obtain illegal gratification from candidates seeking recruitment as Constables (General Duty) in the CRPF.
Sharma had provided advance information about the recruitment schedule and available vacancies to middlemen, who subsequently induced prospective candidates to pay substantial bribes in exchange for guaranteed selection, according to the CBI.
Following the investigation, the CBI filed chargesheets against the accused on November 23, 2010, and July 16, 2012.
In a separate case, a Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Court sentenced six individuals involved in the Coimbatore overseas job scam to varying jail terms of 14 years to 4 years, along with fines, an official said on Saturday.
The Chief Judicial Magistrate at Coimbatore, on Thursday, convicted and sentenced five private individuals – Pulliyil Cheriyan (Managing Director of the firm), Francis Arun, Asha Sharlet and Santosh William – to 14 years of rigorous imprisonment, with a total fine of Rs 54 lakh, the CBI said in a statement.
Another convict, Preetha Kumari, was sentenced to four years of rigorous imprisonment with a fine of Rs 2 lakh, it added.
They were all found guilty of cheating about 600 job aspirants from whom they collected huge sums of money – about Rs 6 crore – for placements in the UK and Cyprus, the CBI said.
