Vigilance Judge Bhagaban Pradhan has awarded two years’ imprisonment to Boudh district’s Sankulei Service Cooperation Society president Antaryami Chaulia after convicting him in a bribe case.
The judge also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on him, failing which he would undergo a jail term for one year more. Chaulia had demanded and taken a bribe amount of Rs 50,000 from society secretary Sanjaya Kumar Gaigoria to regularise his job.
He had earlier suspended Gaigoria on the charge of not attending office regularly.
Special Public Prosecutor Suresh Mahapatra had conducted the case.