The Baripada Vigilance court on Tuesday convicted Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) of police Birendra Kumar Jena of Mayurbhanj district for demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 400 from a person for excluding his father’s name from a police case.
The court sentenced the former police officer to undergo rigorous imprisonment of six months and pay a fine of Rs 3,000.
In default of payment of the fine, the convict would undergo RI for another two months. In another development, for demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 300 from a villager in Keonjhar district, a former Revenue Inspector of the district was sentenced to undergo RI of one year.
The court also slapped a fine of Rs 1,000 on him stating that in default of payment of the fine he would undergo RI for another month.
The former Revenue Inspector, Akshay Kumar Nayak, had demanded from one Chakradhar Raj of village Gourtala payment of the bribe amount for submission of an inquiry report in respect of his mutation case.