Summary:
All three were convicted under section 109 (punishment for abetment) of Indian Penal Code (IPC).The court also came down heavily on 58 witnesses who turned hostile during the trial. Suman was then posted at Guwahati as commissioner of income tax (audit). An FIR was registered against him in Dalanwala police station,” said the CBI lawyer.In addition, he said that a case is also pending with CBI magistrate court against Suman, related to purchase of a car on a forged ration card. During trial, the prosecution examined 255 witnesses while defence lawyers examined eight witnesses in the case.Incidentally, in a separate case, Swetabh Suman had been arrested by CBI sleuths while taking a bribe of Rs 40 lakh in Assam in April 2018. He had also purchased few acres of agriculture land in Pondha village in Dehradun in the name of different people.“He bought the 55 bigha land in Pondha in his associate Abhay Kumar Singh’s name and three shops in a commercial complex..