New Delhi: Former union preacher Dilip Ray was today sentenced to three year jail time over his role in the claimed abnormalities in the allowance of a Jharkhand coal block in 1999.
Besides Dilip Ray, the Special CBI court likewise handed three-year jail sentence to 2 individual that was also founded guilty lately for their function in the rip-off.
Unique Judge Bharat Prashar, while pronouncing sentence, additionally imposed a penalty of the sum of 10 lakhs each against all founded guilty individuals.
Dilip Ray advise chosen to move bail for him and also appeal against his sentence, according to agency ANI.
Dilip Ray, former Minister of State in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, was, previously this month convicted under numerous areas consisting of for criminal conspiracy theory, that differs a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, by the same court.
The CBI had seek life imprisonment for the previous Union minister and other convicts, suggesting that white-collar crimes get on the increase and optimal penalty was required to send out a message to the culture.
The CBI, stood for by public prosecutors V K Sharma and A P Singh, had also looked for a life sentence for two senior authorities of the Ministry of Coal back then, Pradip Kumar Banerjee and also Nitya Nand Gautam, and Castron Technologies Ltd’s (CTL) director Mahendra Kumar Agarwalla.
The convicted individuals had urged the court to take a tolerant sight considering their old age and that they have never been founded guilty earlier.
The case related to the allowance of the Brahmadiha coal block in Giridih of Jharkhand to CTL in 1999.
