An additional district and sessions court in Mangaluru sentenced a retired executive engineer with the minor irrigation department to six years simple imprisonment and charged him with ₹2.5 crore fine for amassing wealth disproportionate to known sources of income. He has to undergo another 18 months simple imprisonment upon failure to pay the fine.
Convict N.T. Rajagopal, now residing in Sri Krishna Balaji Layout, Kannarpady, Udupi, was directed to pay ₹2.5 crore fine even if he serves default sentence in lieu of fine, said III Additional District and Sessions Judge B.B. Jakati in the judgement pronounced on July 12, 2022. He sentenced the convict under Section 13 (1)(e), read with Section 13 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
If the convict fails to pay the fine, the government should recover the amount from him under Section 421 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, where a court may issue warrant for sale of movable property of the offender or issue a warrant to the Deputy Commissioner to recover the fine as the arrears of land revenue from movable or immovable properties, or both.
