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A Special Court for cases nether the Prevention of Corruption Act successful Chennai connected Monday convicted a erstwhile impermanent inferior adjunct attached to the Mambalam-Guindy taluk bureau and a backstage idiosyncratic successful a bribery lawsuit related to the issuance of a ineligible heir certificate.
According to the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC), the lawsuit was registered successful 2011 based connected a ailment lodged by K. Jansi alias Jansi Rani of Virugambakkam. The ailment stated that she had applied for a ineligible heir certificate pursuing the decease of her father, Karuppiah, connected August 31, 2010. During her sojourn to the taluk bureau connected December 14, 2010, impermanent inferior adjunct and clerk T.S. Murthy allegedly introduced her to N. Sugumar, a backstage individual, and instructed her to wage the magnitude demanded by him for obtaining the certificate.
DVAC officials said that connected March 10, 2011, Sugumar allegedly collected a bribe of ₹4,000 connected behalf of Murthy and handed implicit the ineligible heir certificate to the complainant. Following this, some the accused were arrested and remanded successful judicial custody.
Delivering the judgment, the Special Judge recovered Murthy blameworthy nether provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. The tribunal sentenced him to two-year rigorous imprisonment and imposed a good of ₹2,000. Sugumar was convicted and sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment and fined ₹1,000.
