NEW DELHI: The sentences awarded today to 37 accused in a fodder scam case, with terms ranging from 3.5 years to 14 years, and fines amounting to over Rs 29 crore followed a 17-year-long trial, officials said.
O P Diwakar, the then regional director of the Animal Husbandry Department, was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment of 14 years along with a fine of Rs 2 crore by a special court in Ranchi.
He was sentenced to seven years’ jail in two separate cases, which would run consecutively, and Rs one crore fine in each of them, the CBI spokesperson said.
Besides him, 15 former officials were sentenced to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment (3.5 years each in the two cases) and slapped with a fine of Rs one crore each (Rs 50 lakh in each of the two cases), with the sentences running consecutively.
Three suppliers were sentenced in only one case with imprisonment of seven years and a fine of Rs one crore each, the spokesperson said here.
The remaining 18 suppliers of fodder were sentenced to 3.5 years of rigorous imprisonment (sentenced in one case) with Rs 50 lakh fine on each. (AGENCIES)
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