Military engineer sentenced to 4 yrs jail for accepting bribe

A Special CBI judge today convicted a former Commander Works Engineer of Military Engineering Services (MES) of bribery and sentenced him to 4 years' rigorous imprisonment.

The official from Sriganganagar Military station, RK Mathur was also slapped a fine of Rs 15,000.

CBI had registered a case against Bansal, under sections7 and 13(2) r/w 13(1)(d) of Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act 1988 on December 29, 2011 after he was caught red handed accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 for clearing the bills of the complainant in the case.

The CBI had laid a trap following the complaint and arrested Bansal. A charge sheet was filed against Bansal in the CBI court, Jodhpur, on March 30, 2013.