{"id":43685,"date":"2016-07-01T08:45:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T03:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=43685"},"modified":"2016-07-01T08:45:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T03:15:08","slug":"postoffice-nhai-employees-convicted-graft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/postoffice-nhai-employees-convicted-graft","title":{"rendered":"Postoffice, NHAI employees convicted for graft"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38818\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38818\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/CBI1-300x202.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"38818\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/cwg-street-lighting-scam-cbi-for-strict-sentence-for-convicts\/cbi1-300x202\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/CBI1-300x202.jpg?fit=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,202\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"CBI1-300&amp;#215;202\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/CBI1-300x202.jpg?fit=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/CBI1-300x202.jpg?fit=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-38818 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/CBI1-300x202-300x202.jpg?resize=300%2C202&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Postoffice, NHAI employees convicted for graft\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Postoffice, NHAI employees convicted for graft<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A CBI court here today convicted two employees of post office and one of the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) in separate graft cases.<\/p>\n<p>In the first case, Pancharam and Arjunram, who were posted at Phalodi post office, had fraudulently taken out Rs 20 lakh to Rs 30 lakh between 2007-2009 from public accounts, according to the prosecution.<br \/>\nTerming it an act of &#8220;shaking the trust of investors&#8221; in institutions like post office, special court (CBI) Judge M R Suthar sentenced the duo to 7 years rigorous imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>A penalty of Rs 22 lakh and Rs 7 lakh was also imposed on Pancharam and Arjunram respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In the second case, the court convicted Surendra Kumar Soni, an employee of NHAI, for accepting a bribe of Rs 15 lakh from a plantation contractor in return for clearing his bills.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Sutharsentenced Soni to 6 years imprisonment apart from imposing a penalty of Rs 50,000 on him after public prosecutor Rakesh Kumar pleaded for a harsher sentence.<\/p>\n<p>During search of Soni&#8217;s house after his arrest by CBI on April 29, 2013, expensive imported items had also been seized from his possession.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A CBI court here today convicted two employees of post office and one of the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) in separate graft cases. 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