Bengaluru: The sleuths of the Anti Corruption Bureau on Thursday raided the Transport Department check post near Donnehalli village near Jagalur in Davanagere district on NH 13 and found unaccounted cash of Rs 91,000. They arrested five people, including the Transport Inspector.
According to the ACB officials, there was credible information that the Transport officials were collecting money through middlemen from heavy goods vehicles going towards Hospet in Ballari district. Based on the information, the officials raided the checkpost around 4 pm on Thursday.
During the inspection, it was found that the Transport officials had issued only two acknowledgment of Rs 600 each for collecting penalty.
“However, an unaccounted cash of Rs 91,000 was found in the checkpost, for which there was no document and it was seized. Later the Transport Inspector of Davanagere district, Nagaraj Selagi, his official driver, Nagaraj and the three middlemen through whom they collected the bribe - Jayanna, Jayaram and Thippeswamy - were arrested. The inspector's official vehicle was also seized,” an ACB official said. Further investigations are on.
3 bank officials convicted
The CBI Special Court on Thursday convicted three former officials of Vijaya Bank and seven other people in connection with a corruption and cheating case related to disbursement of housing loans.
Dinakar Shetty, the then Senior Manager of Vijaya Bank, HAL III Stage Branch, K. Ratnakar Shetty, the then Assistant Manager of the Vijaya Bank, Vijayaynagar Branch and P. N. Shivamurthy, the then Assistant Manager of Vijaya Bank, HAL III Stage Branch are the officials convicted for criminal misconduct.
The Judge Ashwatha Narayana also convicted seven other accused, who are private individuals, for criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery. The case was entrusted to the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the CBI, Bengaluru by the state’s Home Department in 2010, based on a complaint filed by the Chief Manager of the Vijaya Bank, HAL Ill Stage Branch, in 2009.
The complaint was against K.A. Subramanya, Chairman of SCT Builders and Developers in Viman Nagar at Kaggadasapura. After the probe, the CBI has filed a chargesheet in April, 2010.
The accused had allegedly entered into a criminal conspiracy during the year 2003-04, to cheat the Vijaya Bank, HAL III Stage Branch for getting 21 savings bank accounts opened in the names of employees of SCT Institute of Technology, with a dishonest intention to avail housing loans in their names by preparing false documents to purchase flats constructed by Subramanya.
The accused bank officials sanctioned and disbursed the housing loans in favour of Subramanya, without verifying the documents. Subramanya sold these flats mortgaged to the bank to third parties without informing the bank. The act caused wrongful loss of Rs 1.81 crore plus corresponding interest to the bank.
The judge found the accused guilty and sentenced the bank officials to undergo five years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) and levied penalty of Rs 5 lakh each. The other seven accused have been convicted and sentenced to undergo five years RI and a fine of Rs 1 lakh each.
