TUMAKURU: The seventh district and sessions court here on Monday has convicted a Junior Engineer (JE) and a waterman attached with the town municipality at Pavagada town for taking huge bribe from a contractor to clear his bills.
The judge Sudheendranath has convicted the JE Prakash to five years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) besides imposing a fine of Rs 4 lakh. While the waterman Riyaz has been sentenced to three years of RI with penalty of Rs 5,000.
The duo had demanded Rs 7 lakh as bribe to clear the bills of G Lingamaiah, a civil contractor, and had collected Rs 3 lakh during September 2016 and were demanding the Rs 4 more lakh. While the JE was collecting Rs 1 lakh the ACB inspector VM Guruprasad had trapped him and hd filed the charge sheet after a probe.
Special public prosecutor RP Prakash had appeared on behalf of the government.