A Ranchi court on Thursday sentenced two engineers — Ram Vinod Sinha and RK Jain — to five-year imprisonment along with a fine of Rs15,000.Ram Vinod Sinha and RK Jain were posted as Junior Engineer and Assistant Engineer respectively in Khunti. Both of them had been charged of being involved in a scam amounting to Rs30 lakh which was later found to be true during the investigation.
Since they could not give an account of the scam, both of them were sent to jail after holding them guilty for it. According to their advocate, an amount of Rs1 crore was sanctioned in the year 2010 for construction of a cooperative building in Khunti district. As the construction work did not take place, Rs70 lakh was returned but no account of the rest amount was given to the Government.
Police in Khunti and Ranchi had lodged 17 cases against the junior engineer, Ram Vinod Sinha under various sections for defalcation of huge funds. The Government later handed over the cases to the Vigilance Bureau, which lodged separate cases.The case also involved the then DC of Khunti and RTI queries were also raised in the case making it furthermore complicated.