Govt staffer convicted for graft

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, March 21, 2006

An employee in a Sub-Registrar’s office was sentenced to an year’s rigorous imprisonment by a special court almost 13 years after he took Rs 250 as bribe for supplying the certified copy of a property deed.

Special Judge Sunil Gaur found convict Chanderkesh, a record keeper in the Sub-Registrar’s office at Kashmere Gate, guilty of offences under various provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act.

The court also imposed a fine of Rs 3,000 on the convict.

Complainant Madhu had approached the convict on April 27, 1993 to get a certified copy of the deed of her house located on Najafgarh Road. The government official demanded Rs 250 for the service.

She filed a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Branch which laid a trap for the convict at his office the next day and caught him red-handed while accepting the bribe.