SCR engineer awarded one-year imprisonment in bribery case

The CBI Court, Vijayawada, sentenced an Assistant Divisional Engineer (ADE) moving successful South Central Railway (SCR), Bhimavaram, to acquisition 1 twelvemonth imprisonment successful a bribery case.

Acting connected a complaint, sleuths of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered a lawsuit against M. Dharma Rao connected November 29, 2006, for demanding a integer camera worthy ₹11,200 to wide the bills of a contractor. The accused was caught portion accepting the camera successful speech for clearing bills of ₹1.87 lakh.

The CBI court, connected Friday, awarded imprisonment, too imposing ₹1,500 good connected the accused, sources said.