BHOPAL: A special court has sentenced 4 persons to 3 years of rigorous imprisonment for selling off the farmers’ agricultural land at dirt cheap rate after they failed to pay up the bank loans.
According to prosecution, residents of Bagauniya and Kalyanpur village had lodged a complaint with the lokayukta that officials of district cooperative agriculture & rural development bank in Bhopal sold their 23.5 acre land at Kolua village in Bhopal district for only Rs 3.50 lakh between the year 2000 and 2007 without informing the farmers who had pledged their land against loan.
They said that the land was sold off by bank officials at rates far less than the collector rate or the market price of land to benefit the buyers.
Following investigation, the special police establishment (SPE), lokayukta, charge-sheeted the accused including the bank officials concerned and the person whom the land was sold accusing them of fraud, criminal conspiracy and provision of Prevention of Corruption Act. The court of special judge Rajiv K Paul held the accused guilty and sentenced them to 3 years of rigorous imprisonment each.
The accused, Vijendra Kaushal, Radhesyam Garg, Humumchandra Singhai and Laxman Vadhvani, were sentenced under sections 420, 471, 120 (b) of the IPC and 13 (1) (d) and 13 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, said Manoj Tripathi, spokesperson for the district prosecution wing.
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