A Delhi court has sentenced five persons, including four Municipal Corporation of Delhi officials, to four years jail term each and the Managing Director of a firm to six years in prison in the first conviction in a 2010 Commonwealth Games scam case.<br/><br/>The case relates to the CWG street lighting scam which had caused a loss of one crore and four lakhs rupees to the exchequer. Special CBI Judge Brijesh Garg yesterday awarded four-year rigorous imprisonment each to MCD Superintendent Engineer D K Sugan, Executive Engineer O P Mahla, Accountant Raju V and the civic body's tender clerk Gurcharan Singh and private firm Sweka Powertech Engineering Pvt Ltd's Director J P Singh.<br/><br/>These five convicted persons were sentenced for various offences including criminal conspiracy, cheating and using forged documents as genuine of IPC and section 13(1)(d) for criminal misconduct by public servant by corrupt means and abusing position of the Prevention of Corruption Act.<br/><br/>The court also jailed the firm's Managing Director T P Singh to six years for the offences of cheating, criminal conspiracy, forgery of valuable security, forgery for purpose of cheating, using forged documents as genuine under IPC and Section 13(1)(d)(criminal misconduct by public servant by corrupt means and abusing position) of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
News On AIR | September 3, 2015 10:04 AM
CWG scam: Delhi court sentences four MCD officials to four year jail terms