Ex-govt official charged for amassing illegal wealth
13 Dec 2013 5:06 AM IST
A Delhi court on Wednesday sentenced a former government officer to two years imprisonment for amassing disproportionate assets worth Rs 24.88 lakh during his service between 1965 and 2001.
Special CBI judge Sanjeev Jain handed down the jail term to 70-year-old Virender Singh, the then Project Director in Telecommunication Consultants India Limited (TCIL) here, after holding him guilty under various provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
While imposing a fine of Rs five lakh on the convict, the court also said, Rs 3.15 lakh seized from Singh’s house and locker has been ‘confiscated to the state’, which is directed to be dealt in accordance with the law. The court, however, suspend the jail term of Singh for 30 days while allowing him to file an appeal before the superior court against his conviction and sentence.
TCIL is a government-owned engineering and consultancy company under the administrative control of the Department of Telecommunications (DOT), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
According to the CBI, the check period was taken from 1965 to 11 December, 2001 which was almost the entire service term of the accused. The agency concluded that Singh was found having disproportionate assets of Rs 31.14 lakh.
Special CBI judge Sanjeev Jain handed down the jail term to 70-year-old Virender Singh, the then Project Director in Telecommunication Consultants India Limited (TCIL) here, after holding him guilty under various provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
While imposing a fine of Rs five lakh on the convict, the court also said, Rs 3.15 lakh seized from Singh’s house and locker has been ‘confiscated to the state’, which is directed to be dealt in accordance with the law. The court, however, suspend the jail term of Singh for 30 days while allowing him to file an appeal before the superior court against his conviction and sentence.
TCIL is a government-owned engineering and consultancy company under the administrative control of the Department of Telecommunications (DOT), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
According to the CBI, the check period was taken from 1965 to 11 December, 2001 which was almost the entire service term of the accused. The agency concluded that Singh was found having disproportionate assets of Rs 31.14 lakh.
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