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Bangaru Laxman sentenced to four years' jail
Saturday April 28, 2012 04:29:37 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
A Delhi Court Saturday awarded four years' rigorous imprisonment
to former Bharaitya Janata Party (BJP) president Bangaru Laxman
for accepting a bribe from a fake arms dealer in a 10-year-old
graft case. The court also slapped him with a fine of Rs.1 lakh.
Additional Sessions Judge Kanwaljeet Arora handed down the
sentences after holding him guilty Friday an d sending him to
judicial custody.
Arora, who is also special CBI judge, pronouncing the sentence,
said: "Balancing the twin interest of the society and that of the
convict, I am of the opinion that interest of justice would be met
if the convict is sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a
term of four years and to pay a fine of Rs.1 lakh for the offence
under section 9 of Prevention of Corruption Act."
The case dates to 2001, when newsportal tehelka.com carried out a
sting operation that caught Laxman on camera receiving money from
a journalist posing as an arms dealer. He later resigned as the
BJP chief.
Tehelka had released CDs showing Laxman accepting money for
promise of assistance to a fictitious Britain-based company M/s
West End International in securing a contract for the supply of
thermal imagers to the Indian Army.
A Delhi court May 2011 framed corruption charges against Laxman.
The CBI, in its charge sheet, 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 charge sheet.
However, Laxman had said that the investigations of the case were
politically motivated and were not conducted in fair manner.
Alleging that the Congress party had funded this sting operation,
Laxman said: "Congress party did use the Tehelka tapes in the
general elections held in 2004, which goes on to establish that it
was Congress party or the persons having interest therein, who
funded this project, wherein I was framed... I never had any
disposition to commit any offence."
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