Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 9: Special Judge Anticorruption (CBI cases) Jammu M L Manhas today awarded five years imprisonment to retired Junior Assistant of Revenue Department namely Joginder Singh, son of Mangal Singh of BPO Kalyana, R S Pura, who had arranged forged documents for partners of Divya Rice Mill for loan from SBI Kacchi Chowni.
However, the court acquitted Naresh Kumar Gupta, son of Ishwar Chand Gupta of Haryana (Chief Manager, the then Team Leader, State Bank of India, Zonal Office, Jammu), as prosecution miserably failed to prove that Naresh Kumar Gupta was responsible for commission of offences under Section 120-B, 420,467,468,471 RPC & 5(2) read with Section 5(1)(d) of J&K Prevention of Corruption Act, 2006.
According to the facts of the case, Pritam Singh, son of Tara Singh, partner Divya Rice Mill (now dead) and Jasvinder Singh, son of Darshan Singh, partner M/s Divya Rice Mill (absconder) entered into a partnership on 11.10.2006 to set up a Rice Mill at Deblehar in pursuance to which they hatched a conspiracy with officials of SBI and others to seek loan through cheating.
They approached SBI Kachi Chowni Branch to obtain credit facility of Rs.113.5 lakh for establishing Rice Mill named as Divya Rice Mill, and accordingly in October2006 submitted an application form supported by necessary documents.
After hearing Special PP Manmohan Sharma for the CBI, the court awarded five years imprisonment to Joginder Singh, retired Junior Assistant from Revenue Department.
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