Keonjhar district’s Banspal block former Junior Engineer Basanta Kumar Sahu was convicted on Tuesday by the Vigilance Special Judge for demanding and accepting illegal gratification of `22,000.
The Vigilance Court awarded three years of rigorous imprisonment to Sahu. A fine of `50,000 was also imposed on him. In default of payment, he would undergo another one year of RI. The court further sentenced him to undergo RI for one year and to pay a fine of `20,000, in default of payment of fine, he would undergo RI for six months. Both the sentences would go concurrently.
He demanded the bribe from one from one Pabitra Mohan Mohanta in order to prepare running bills of the work ‘Construction of Earth Murom Road from Kundhei to Gunghi’.
later, on Mohanta’s complaint, a trap was laid and accused Basanta Kumar Sahu was caught red-handed.