SAD Head, 21 Others Get 7 Years Jail For Graft

Patiala: A special CBI court on, April 20, sent SAD head along with 21 others, comprising 3 FCI functionaries to jail for a period of 7 years.

As per reports, all of them were sent to jail following a fraud case.

The Special Judge Hemant Gopal held a ex SAD MLA Mangat Rai Bansal and others 21 responsible of making forbidden gains by delivering poor quality rice, leading to loss to the Food Corporation of India to around Rs 1.8 crore.

The CBI had lodged the chargesheet against total 28 people comprising 3 Food Corporation of India (FCI) functionaries and 25 rice millers (including Bansal) in the year 2001 and booked all the charged under sections 120 (B), 420 IPC and sections 13(1), 13(2) of Prevention of Corruption Act.

As per reports, 2 charged have died sooner or later whereas 2 got acquitted and two were given 2 years jail sentence.

3 FCI functionaries comprising P N Aggarwal, M S Tomar, and J R Monga, functioning as quality control supporter had authorized the poor quality rice from millers.

They got fired by Food Corporation of India, after lodging of FIR against them.

The case against Mangat Rai l and 21 others got filed in the year 1998, when in a raid carried out by Punjab Food and Civil Supplies Department, the functionaries detected “poor quality” rice being provided to Food Corporation of India by few millers of Bareta in Mansa region.

A public interest litigation (PIL) got registered in Punjab and Haryana High Court by a Bareta agriculturist, asking for a CBI probe into the misappropriation done by a segment of millers that the High Court admitted and asked for CBI enquiry on September 23, 1999.