The special Vigilance court here on Saturday found five persons, including a retired IAS official, guilty of corruption in connection with the selection of an unrecognised training centre for conducting a training programme for Scheduled Caste (SC) students 20 years ago.
Inquiry Commissioner and Special Judge (Vigilance) G. Gopakumar sentenced former officials of the Scheduled Caste Development Department (SCDD), including former director A.J. Rajan, former finance officer N. Sreekumar, former district development officer Sathyadevan and former SC development officer C. Surendran, as well as the proprietor of the private institution Sukumaran to two years of simple imprisonment. While the former SCDD officials were fined ₹1.10 lakh each, a fine of ₹90,000 was imposed on Sukumaran.
They were found guilty under various provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, including Section 13(2) (punishment for public servant who commits criminal misconduct), and Sections 120B (punishment for criminal conspiracy) and 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servant) of the Indian Penal Code
