An 88-year-old former joint secretary in the Ministry of Commerce has been sentenced to one year in jail by a Delhi court in an over 30-year-old case for amassing disproportionate assets of over Rs. 23 lakh.<br/><br/>The court awarded the jail term to Krishan Bahadur, saying that if people in such high posts on whom public reposes great faith, indulge in looting public resources, nothing will be left for poor masses of the country.<br/> <br/>Special CBI judge Sanjeev Aggarwal commented that public servants are expected to serve the people, not to deprive them or to fill their own coffers.<br/><br/>The court also imposed a fine of Rs 10 lakh on him and forfeited the over Rs. 26 lakh recovered from his house and lockers.