CBI Court awards 3-year RI to Station Superintendent in forgery case

Bhubaneswar: A Special #CBI Court here on Monday, 14th July sentenced a Station Superintendent in Operation Section, East Coast Railway, Khurda Road Division to three-year rigorous imprisonment (#RI) on the charge of fraudulently availing housing loan from a nationalized bank by furnishing forged salary slips and employer’s undertaking for deduction of EMI.

While finding the convict Sarat Chandra Dash working as Station Superintendent in Operation Section, East Coast Railway, Khurda Road Division guilty of perpetrating forgery,

Binod Behari Sahoo, Special Chief Judicial Magistrate CBI Court, Bhubaneswar observed “In the instant case, the convict—Sarat Chandra Das—was a public servant in Railway Department, who was expected to maintain utmost integrity while discharging his public duty, but he did the contrary and brought stigma to East Coast Railway, Khurda Division”.

#SaratChandraDash stands charged for commission of alleged offences U/s. 471/420 of IPC. The convict Sarat Chandra Dash is sentenced to undergo Rigorous Imprisonment for a period of three years and pay a fine of Rs.3 lakh for commission of offence U/s. 420 of IPC and in default of payment of fine, the convict is further directed to undergo the same term for a period of one year, the judgment ruled.