The special court for CBI cases on Friday, September 22, convicted an office Superintendent of Western Railways, Mysuru division and sentenced him for three years for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of ₹25,000 from a candidate to issue an appointment letter.
The Judge H.A. Mohan also directed the convict, L.K. Srikanth to pay a fine of ₹3 lakh for an offence punishable under section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act.
The convict, Srikanth, who himself had been appointed under compassionate grounds, had allegedly demanded a bribe of ₹3 lakh from Vinod Kumar who had got the job as a technician, also on compassionate grounds, after the death of his mother on-duty in August 2020.