CBI court docket awards three years imprisonment to Jharkhand MLA Bandhu Tirkey in graft case

Express News Service

RANCHI: The Special CBI Court in Ranchi awarded a three-year jail time period to former Jharkhand Human Resource Development Minister Bandhu Tirkey and imposed a tremendous of Rs 3 lakh in a disproportionate property case. According to the CBI, Tirkey collected property value Rs 6.28 lakh greater than his identified sources of earnings whereas being a minister within the Madhu Koda authorities throughout 2005-2009.

“The court of Special Judicial Commissioner and CBI Prabhat Kumar Sharma awarded him three years of rigorous imprisonment. The court has found him guilty under various sections of IPC and Prevention of Corruption Act,” mentioned his lawyer Shambhu Agrawal. The court docket additionally imposed a tremendous of Rs 3 lakh, he added.

With this, Tirkey is more likely to lose his membership within the Jharkhand Assembly as he stands disqualified below the Representation of People Act and within the mild of the Supreme Court’s judgment.

As per the legislation, if a public consultant is convicted with a minimal of two years of imprisonment, she or he shall lose membership and can also be disqualified from contesting elections.

A case was lodged in opposition to him by the CBI for possessing disproportionate property value Rs 6.28 lakh.

During the trial, the CBI produced 21 witnesses whereas eight witnesses have been produced from the defence aspect to show his innocence. The investigation and trial on this case saved him on tenterhooks.

The case was lodged in 2008 after petitioner Durga Oraon filed a PIL within the Jharkhand High Court looking for a probe of the property of the then Chief Minister Madhu Koda and his cabinet ministers. After the High Court’s ruling, the CBI took up the investigation from the Vigilance Bureau. It registered instances in 2010 in opposition to Koda and his ministers.

In March 2013, the CBI filed a closure report earlier than the court docket. The company apparently thought of the worth of disproportionate property very low. The CBI submitted that the disproportionate property have been solely 30 % extra of the particular earnings of Bandhu Tirkey through the interval of 2005 to 2009.

But the particular CBI court docket of AK Mishra rejected the closure report. The court docket mentioned that there isn’t a such precedent and there’s no legislation that states a case might be investigated provided that disproportionate property have been above 30 %.

Bandhu Tirkey challenged the court docket order however even after a protracted authorized battle, he didn’t get any reduction. The CBI investigated the case afresh and fees have been framed in opposition to him in January 2019.