Junior Engineer convicted of corruption
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A District Sessions and Special Court in Koppal has sentenced S.T. Erappa, a Junior Engineer employed with Karnataka Land Army Corporation Limited, a State-owned infrastructure growth unit, to 4 years and two months imprisonment and imposed on him a wonderful of ₹ 1,60,000 for amassing property disproportionate to his recognized sources of revenue. The order was handed on October 29.
As per data supplied by sources, a case was filed within the Koppal Lokayukta Police Station on May 9, 2001, accusing Mr. Eranna of amassing property that had been disproportionate to his recognized sources of revenue. Police Inspectors (Lokayukta) R.K. Patil, L.Y Shirakol and Satyanna Reddy investigated the case and filed the charge-sheet.
Hearing each side and inspecting witnesses, L. Vijayalakshmi, choose, discovered the accused responsible of crimes specified within the charge-sheet and pronounced the punishment on Thursday final. She sentenced him to jail and imposed the wonderful underneath Section 13(1)(e) learn with 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. She additionally made it clear that the responsible must endure further imprisonment of six months upon failing to pay the wonderful quantity.
H.S. Hiremath, Special Public Prosecutor, argued for the State within the case.
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