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Former BJP president Bangaru Laxman
convicted for taking bribe
Friday April 27, 2012 03:37:46 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Bangaru Laxman was
convicted by a Delhi court and taken into custody for accepting a
bribe from a fake arms dealer in a 10-year-old graft case.
He was convicted by Additional Sessions Judge Kanwaljeet Arora.
Laxman was taken into juidicial custody and arguments on
sentencing will be heard Saturday.
The case dates back to 2001, when newsportal tehelka.com carried
out a sting operation that caught Laxman on camera receiving money
from an undercover journalist posing as an arms dealer. He later
resigned as the BJP chief.
Accepting the charges of the Central Bureau of Investigation, the
court said it has established its case against Laxman for
accepting bribe from a fake arms dealer.
"The CBI had been able to establish its allegation, so accused is
convicted and punishable under section 9 of Prevention of
Corruption Act," the court said.
Tehelka had released CDs showing Laxman accepting money for
awarding a contract to a fictitious Britain-based company M/s West
End International, for the supply of hand-held thermal imagers to
the Indian Army.
A Delhi court May 2011 framed corruption charges against Laxman.
The CBI, in its chargesheet, said that Laxman accepted Rs.1 lakh
from the representatives of the purported firm in 2001 at his
office for pursuing their proposal to supply certain products to
the army.
"Tehelka portal scribes, impersonating as representatives of West
End International, had held eight meetings with Laxman between Dec
23, 2000 and Jan 7, 2001, projecting themselves as suppliers of
defence-related products," said the chargesheet.
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