Ex-JPSC chairman gets two years' jail term
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The CBI court sentenced Prasad and directors of M/s SPS International, SK Jain and Sudhir Jain, to two years under section 120 B and 420 of IPC and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 each with the condition that they would undergo additional term of six months for default in payment.
The court also sentenced the convicts to two years and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 each on them under section 13 (2) read with 13 (1) (d) of Prevention of Corruption Act.
They would have to serve additional six months for failure to pay the fine. Both the prison terms would run concurrently. The crime is related to 2004, but the CBI took it over in 2013. The conducting prosecutor of the case was Khushboo Jaiswal.
Prasad was charged of changing the conditions to favour SPS international in allotting the tender for OMR scanning machine. He was accused of allotting the works to SPS International even though it had quoted higher prices than one company in the bidding process. The advance payment was also made to the company in violation of rules.
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