CBI court awards one year RI to founders of Engg College

A CBI Special Court here has sentenced the two founders of a charitable trust near here, to one year Rigorous Imprisonment for cheating the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 each on Dr Harivasagam and M G Sekar of the Harivasagam Charitable Trust that runs the VKK Vijayan Engineering College on charge sheets filed by the CBI, a CBI release here said.
The then AICTE Advisor, Nagin Chand who was earlier charge sheeted was "acquitted" by the CBI Court, it said.
The anti-corruption branch of CBI investigated the case in 2009 on charges that the founders had cheated the AICTE "for not complying with the conditions and rectifications" pointed out by the expert committee of AICTE in 2005 to get approval for running the institution, the release said.