The Special Court for CBI cases has awarded 30-month simple imprisonment to four officials who were working with Central Institute of Plastic Engineering and Technology (CIPET) for causing wrongful loss to the tune of Rs 1.25 crore.
The probe agency had filed a charge sheet alleging that H N Aravind, a grade-1 technician with CIPET, had entered into a criminal conspiracy with the other accused to encash demand drafts/cheques issued in favour of CIPET by various clients and deposited them into their current account opened in the name of CIPET Poly Consulting Engineers (CIPET Mysore), during 2005-08.
The other three convicted are: B Ramaraj, the then senior technical officer, R Poovai Poovannan, the then technical officer and Banu H Aravind. The court has also slapped a fine of Rs 2.10 lakh on the convicted persons with a direction that the four be sent to simple imprisonment for six months in case they fail to pay the fine. The order was passed by M C Biradar, special judge.
The press release also states that the same court on March 28 convicted D Shashireka, Inspector, Income Tax Department and sentenced her to simple imprisonment for two years. The CBI had filed a charge sheet against Shashireka under sections 7 and 13 (1) (d) read with 13 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
Charge sheet
The charge sheet had alleged that Shashireka was caught red-handed while accepting an amount of Rs 10,000 from the complainant, U M Taranath, Chief Executive Officer, G T Enterprises, for processing the file for a lower slab of TDS deduction. The court has also directed Shashireka to pay a fine of Rs 20,000.
The agency has also said that V Srishananda, a special judge, has awarded simple imprisonment for three years to T Mukthamba, a retired IAS officer.
According to the charge sheet, Mukthamba, the then project director, Karnataka State AIDS Prevention Society, H T Balakrishna, the then deputy director, G M Renukaiah, the then technical assistant, Bharat Oswal, proprietor of Life Associates, Hubli had wrongly utilised funds from the Centre. Mukthamba has been directed to pay a fine of Rs 1.4 lakh.