Former IPS gets 5-yr jail in MP job scam case

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
ANI | Updated: Jan 17, 2020 04:02 IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Jan 17 (ANI): A local special court on Thursday sentenced former IPS officer Rajendra
Chaturvedi to five years of imprisonment for taking bribe for recruiting of jail wardens when he was the additional director general
(prisons).Additional Sessions Judge S Pandey awarded the punishment to the Chaturvedi who allegedly accepted in excess of Rs 12 lakh between
January 1 and May 26, 2003 on false promise of appointing some people as jail guards.In 2006, a complaint was lodged against him with the
Economic Offences Wing.The court has also imposed on him a fine of Rs 8.75 lakhs
(ANI)