PThe court of Additional Judicial Commissioner (AJC), Ranchi, on Thursday sentenced government officer Vinod Kumar Jha to one year imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 5000 on him in a corruption case.
Another Government employee Dilip Kumar was also sentenced to two years and fined Rs 25, 000 in the same case.
Delivering the order AJC Santosh Kumar said that Jha and Kumar would have to undergo three and six additional months in jail respectively if they fail to pay the fine.
The Anti-corruption Bureau had registered a case against the both the employees on the complaint of Sudhir Kumar Thakur a retired government official of the Water Resource Department. Thakur had alleged that after his retirement the employees had demanded a sum of Rs 20,000 for payment of the gratuity amount.
Thakur retired from service as circle officer in 2013. Jha was the deputy secretary while Kumar was cashier in the water resource department at that time.
After the judgment Thakur said he was forced to lodge the complaint as the officials were determined to take the bribe. They caused me a lot of pain and so I feel satisfied that they have been jailed, he said.