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The Kottayam Vigilance Court connected Saturday sentenced a erstwhile Assistant Engineer of the Kottayam municipality’s Kumaranalloor Zonal Office to 7 years of rigorous imprisonment for demanding a bribe of ₹15,000 for issuing gathering permit.
Delivering the verdict, Inquiry Commissioner and Special Judge (Vigilance) K.V. Rejanish sentenced the accused, Martin Antony, to 3 years of rigorous imprisonment and a good of ₹50,000 and an further 4 years of rigorous imprisonment and a good of ₹1 lakh nether applicable sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
In lawsuit of default successful outgo of fine, the tribunal ordered that the convict indispensable acquisition an further 3 months of imprisonment.
As the complainant had passed distant earlier the proceedings began, the prosecution relied connected different nonstop and circumstantial grounds to found the offence.
