Engineer, Operator gets 4-yrs jail in bribery case

The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge, Sunil Chauhan, sentenced Irrigation Department Executive Engineer Naveen Kumar Yadav and computer operator Chandrashekhar to four years of imprisonment each in a corruption case registered by the Anti-Corruption Bureau on December 16, 2022. The court has also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on each of them.

The complainant had applied to the department for registration of a Haryana Engineering Works Portal (HEWP) contractor license. In exchange for issuing this license, Naveen demanded a bribe of Rs 5,000 from the complainant. This amount was taken by Chandrashekhar, a computer operator working under Haryana Skill Employment Corporation in the department, who was arrested red-handed by the ACB.

In this case, the ACB registered a case on December 16, 2022, under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act and Section 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code. Both the accused were arrested and sent to jail. The case was heard in court, where, based on the evidence and witnesses, the court convicted and sentenced them.