more-in A Delhi court has sentenced a former branch manager of the Oriental Bank of Commerce here to three years in jail for cheating the bank of ?1.47 lakh by opening fake accounts and making fake credit and debit entries into them in 1995. It also imposed a fine of ?12,000 on him. However, Special Judge Kamini Lau granted bail to convict Ashok Pasrija to allow him to file an appeal in the Delhi High Court against the conviction and sentence. “There is no quarrel... that there has to be zero tolerance to corruption and immediate drastic measures are needed to oust this malady. Corruption is the enemy of the nation and tracking down corrupt public servants and punishing them is the necessary mandate of the Prevention of Corruption [PC] Act,” the Judge said. He was held guilty for the offences of criminal breach of trust by a public servant, cheating, forgery of valuable security, forgery for purpose of cheating and falsification of accounts under the IPC and obtaining any pecuniary advantage by corrupt and illegal means under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The prosecution alleged that during his tenure as a manager, Pasrija opened fake saving accounts in the names of several persons and made fake credit and debit entries into them.

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