Hyderabad CBI court sentences former railway commercial porter to 2 years jail in bribery case
Hyderabad: The special court of the Central bureau of investigation(CBI) found a former Commercial porter working with Railways as guilty in a bribery case of 2014. The special court awarded the accused to undergo two years Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) with fine in a case of bribery.
The tainted official was identified as Minala Praveen, then Commercial Porter who used to work in Hyderabad Division of South Central Railway(SCR), Hyderabad.
Going further into details, CBI had registered a case in June, 2014 against Minala Praveen, then Commercial Porter, working in the office of Senior Divisional commercial manager (DCM) of Hyderabad Division, SC Railway, Hyderabad.
The main allegation against the accused was that the tainted official demanded and accepted an amount of Rs. 40,000 from the complainant on 24, June, 2014. The accused reportedly claimed to have an influence with the CBI. Further the accused claimed to that complaint that “exercising his personal influence with public servant (CBI Officials), he would hand over the bribe amount to CBI Officials for closing an alleged complaint pending with CBI against the complainant” said CBI in an official statement.
Further CBI officials arrested the corrupt official and filed a Charge Sheet against the accused in December, 2014. After completion of trial, the Court held the accused guilty and sentenced him accordingly.
In another case in the month of June, CBI opened a Disproportionate Assets(DA against former South Central Railway(SCR) chief engineer P R Suresh. He was arrested by CBI while accepting a bribe.
According to the central agency, during the analysis of the seized documents, in corruption case, disclosed that P R Suresh during the period between 2012 and 2022 while working at various position in Bhubaneswar and Secunderabad had intentionally enriched himself and his family members illicitly by amassing pecuniary resources or properties to the tune of Rs.5.21 crores which are disproportionate to his known sources of income and which he cannot satisfactorily account.
