The Special Vigilance Judge on Tuesday awarded three years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) to former Joda ASI of Police Kabibar Naik in Keonjhar districtand imposed a fine of Rs 30,000 on him while convicting him in a graft charge. Naik was demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 5,000.
The Judge ordered that Naik would undergo six more months of rigorous imprisonment (RI) if fails to pay the fine.
He would undergo RI for period of one year and to pay a fine of Rs 20,000 only in default of payment of fine to further undergo rigorous imprisonment (RI) for two months. Both the sentence would run concurrently.
Naik demanded the bribe from one luski Majhi of Bandhuabada village in Keonjhar district for sending the case diaries to the court for hearing of bail petition of her husband who was forwarded to the court in Joda.