Four MCD officials and two owners of a private firm were on Wednesday sentenced in the CWG streetlight scam case. While the MCD officials and Sewka Power Tech Pvt ltd director JP Singh were given to 4-year imprisonment, CBI judge Brijesh Kumar Garg ordered 6-year jail for the private firm’s managing director TP Singh. The court also slapped a fine of `30,000 each on the MCD officials. TP Singh, JP Singh and their firm have been fined `42,000, `22,000 and `70,000 respectively.
“In this case, the allegations proved against the convicts are quite serious in nature. They had conspired together and had cheated the MCD/GNCTD by forging the tender documents, a valuable security, and have also forged the tender opening register,” the court said.
The CBI had on Tuesday sought maximum punishment sentence for the convicts. Then MCD superintending engineer DK Sugan, executive engineer OP Mahala, accountant Raju V, tender clerk Gurcharan Singh, and the two owners of Sweka Power Tech Pvt ltd.