74-year-old former judge gets 3 year jail term for taking Rs 2000 bribe 26 years ago
BY PTI28 April 2012 3:59 PM GMT
PTI28 April 2012 3:59 PM GMT
74-year-old former metropolitan magistrate Gulab Tulsiyani was sentenced to three years in jail today for taking Rs 2000 as bribe 26 years ago.
Tulsiyani was handed the jail term by Special CBI Judge V K Maheshwari, who said, 'Judicial office is an office of public trust, therefore high integrity, honesty, ethical firmness is the requirement of society from the judge. A judge's conduct is expected to be judged by standards higher than that expected from any other public servant.'
Maheshwari held the former judge guilty of demanding and accepting illegal gratification for disposal of a factory challan case in 1986 during his tenure as a metropolitan magistrate at a Patiala House court here.
Tulsiyani's pleaded with the court that he has undergone four or five brain surgeries, that his son had died recently in an accident, and there was no one else to take care of his wife, a heart patient.
The CBI, however, sought stringent punishment for him saying his was a serious corruption case.
According to the CBI, Tulsiyani while working as a MM had demanded the bribe of Rs. 2000 from the complainant Ajesh Mittal for disposal of a factory challan case, to be paid at his house on June 7, 1986. Unwilling to pay the bribe, Mittal lodged a complaint with the CBI, which sent him to Tulsiyani's residence with the bribe money and also with a tape recorder.
After giving the amount to the judge, Mittal called the CBI sleuths inside. On seeing them, the judge ran towards his toilet to flush the tainted money, but was caught before he could do so.
The court, which also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the former judge, however, suspended his sentence till May 28 after Tulsiyani wished to appeal against his conviction and sentencing.
While releasing him on an interim bail on a personal bond of Rs 50,000 with one surety of same amount, the court asked Tulsiyani to appear before it on May 29.
'The confidence in judiciary is getting shattered day by day. Today judiciary is suffering from self-inflicted wounds. Judiciary must take utmost care to see that the temple of justice does not crack from inside, which will lead to a catastrophe in the justice delivery system resulting in the failure of public confidence in the system,' Maheshwari said, adding that to keep the 'of justice clean and pure', a judge must be endowed with 'sterling character, unimpeachable integrity and upright behaviour'.
Tulsiyani was handed the jail term by Special CBI Judge V K Maheshwari, who said, 'Judicial office is an office of public trust, therefore high integrity, honesty, ethical firmness is the requirement of society from the judge. A judge's conduct is expected to be judged by standards higher than that expected from any other public servant.'
Maheshwari held the former judge guilty of demanding and accepting illegal gratification for disposal of a factory challan case in 1986 during his tenure as a metropolitan magistrate at a Patiala House court here.
Tulsiyani's pleaded with the court that he has undergone four or five brain surgeries, that his son had died recently in an accident, and there was no one else to take care of his wife, a heart patient.
The CBI, however, sought stringent punishment for him saying his was a serious corruption case.
According to the CBI, Tulsiyani while working as a MM had demanded the bribe of Rs. 2000 from the complainant Ajesh Mittal for disposal of a factory challan case, to be paid at his house on June 7, 1986. Unwilling to pay the bribe, Mittal lodged a complaint with the CBI, which sent him to Tulsiyani's residence with the bribe money and also with a tape recorder.
After giving the amount to the judge, Mittal called the CBI sleuths inside. On seeing them, the judge ran towards his toilet to flush the tainted money, but was caught before he could do so.
The court, which also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the former judge, however, suspended his sentence till May 28 after Tulsiyani wished to appeal against his conviction and sentencing.
While releasing him on an interim bail on a personal bond of Rs 50,000 with one surety of same amount, the court asked Tulsiyani to appear before it on May 29.
'The confidence in judiciary is getting shattered day by day. Today judiciary is suffering from self-inflicted wounds. Judiciary must take utmost care to see that the temple of justice does not crack from inside, which will lead to a catastrophe in the justice delivery system resulting in the failure of public confidence in the system,' Maheshwari said, adding that to keep the 'of justice clean and pure', a judge must be endowed with 'sterling character, unimpeachable integrity and upright behaviour'.
Next Story