Ex-GM of BSNL gets 4-year jail for graft

A special CBI court here today sentenced a former senior general manager (GM) of BSNL to four years in jail for accepting a bribe of Rs 2 lakh in the year 2014.

The court of special CBI judge Dr Sushil Kumar Garg also imposed a fine of Rs10 lakh on the convict, Chanderhas, the then senior GM, Telecom District (BSNL), Karnal.

Chanderhas had demanded a bribe of Rs3 lakh from Yashpal, a junior telecom officer of BSNL, office of Divisional Engineer, Karnal, in lieu of reducing the penalty in a chargesheet against him. Chanderhas later reduced the bribe amount to Rs2.75 lakh and agreed to accept Rs2 lakh as the first installment.