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New Delhi, May 22: The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a chargesheet against Ex-Chief Minister of Jharkhand Madhu Koda in the Court of Special Judge, CBI, Ranchi for possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. His associate has also been chargesheeted along with him for abetting the offence. The assets and expenditure of Ex-Chief Minister have been found to be disproportionate to the tune of approx. Rs.8.42 crores.
The public is reminded that the above findings are based on the investigation done by CBI and evidence collected by it. Under the Indian Law, the accused are presumed to be innocent till their guilt is finally established after a fair trial.
The Special Judge for CBI Cases, Patna has convicted B N Kunwar & D C Choudhary, both then Junior Engineers, RCD, Motihari (Bihar) and D N Singh, Carriage Contractor. All the three accused were sentenced to undergo five years Rigorous Imprisonment for misappropriating the bulk Bitumen.
The instant case was lodged by Birendra Narayan Kunwar, JE, RCD Motihari vide Motihari P. S. case No 126/96 alleging therein that carriage transporter D.N.Singh lifted 546.86 MT Bulk Bitumen against S.O. No. 4773 (E) dt. 23.07.94 but delivered only 120.84 MT. He also lifted 1024.96 MT Bulk Bitumen in respect of S.O.No. 5502 (E) dt. 17.08.94 but supplied only 12.32 MT to consignee RCD Motihari. Thus, the carriage transporter D.N. Singh misappropriated Bulk Bitumen worth about Rs 70 lakh.
CBI took up the investigation on the directions of Hon’ble High Court, Patna and registered a case on 05.03.1997.
After investigation, charge sheet was filed against three accused persons, namely D. N. Singh, Carriage contractor;
B. N. Kunwar & D. C. Choudhary, both then JEs, RCD, Motihari. The Trial Court found all the accused guilty and convicted them.
The Special Judge, CBI cases, Ernakolam (Kerala) has convicted i K. Ramarajan, then Assistant Manager, State Bank of India, Vaniyamkulam Branch, Palghat and three other private accused viz. i K. Divakaran Nair; K. Ramdas & i Gopalankutty, all resident of Palghat, in a CBI Case U/s 120B r/w 420, 468, 471 IPC & Sec. 13 (2) r/w 13(1)(d) of PC Act, 1988 and sentenced them to undergo three years Simple Imprisonment.
The investigation revealed that K. Ramarajan while working as Assistant Manager(Advances), State Bank of Travancore, Vaniyamkulam Branch, Palghat(Kerala) entered into a criminal conspiracy with 5 private accused persons viz. i K. Divakaran Nair; i K. Ramdas; Gopalankutty and two other persons. In pursuance of the said criminal conspiracy, the public servant had fraudulently & with dishonest intention, recommended agricultural loans to various persons on the basis of forged documents like Tax Receipts, Possession Certificate etc. submitted by private persons. The Assistant Manager knowing fully well that the said documents were forged and that the loanees were not entitled to get any loan, had cheated the State Bank of India to the tune of Rs.12,36,000/-(approx) and derived pecuniary advantage for himself & other accused persons. The Court found four accused persons guilty. Two accused were died and charges against them were abated by the Court.
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