New Delhi, Nov 28 (LatestNewsX) – In Vijayawada, a CBI‑run court handed down a one‑year jail term to a former railway official on Friday for a bribery scandal that dates back almost twenty years. Matta Dharma Rao, who had been an Assistant Divisional Engineer with South Central Railway at Bhimavaram in West Godavari district, was found guilty of demanding and taking illicit payments from a contractor. The case, first registered on 29 November 2006 after a complaint by a railway contractor, revealed that Dharma Rao had misused his post and asked for a digital camera, charger and batteries worth roughly Rs 11,200 as a bribe. He allegedly received the money in exchange for clearing a Rs 1.87‑lakh bill and encouraging the approval of an additional pending bill of Rs 77,000. After the CBI finished its investigation, it filed a chargesheet on 11 June 2007. The lengthy trial culminated with the court sentencing him to one year imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1,500.
Earlier, on Thursday, the CBI Court in Ghaziabad convicted an officer from the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) and a private individual in a separate bribery case. Assistant Binod Kumar of KVIC’s Meerut division, along with independent businessman Surendra Khurana (also known as Sunny Khurana), was found responsible for accepting a bribe of Rs 1.25 lakh to approve an invalid loan application for a cement‑tiles manufacturing unit. The CBI opened the case on 15 September 2017 and the court sentenced Kumar to four years’ imprisonment plus a Rs 50,000 fine, while Khurana received three years’ jail and a Rs 10,000 fine.
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