Summary:
OBSERVING THAT “corruption is eating the very roots of our system”, the special CBI court of Chandigarh on Tuesday sentenced a Head Constable of Chandigarh Police to five-year imprisonment. He had been arrested while accepting a bribe of Rs 1,000 from an autorickshaw driver for not harassing and challaning his autorickshaw in 2014. AdvertisingThe convict, Paramjit Singh, then Head Constable of the Chandigarh traffic Police, was sentenced under Section 7, Section 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. After talking for a while, the complainant handed over the bribe money to the accused. The convict was also imposed a fine of Rs 30,000 by the court of Sanjiv Joshi, ADJ, CBI..