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| Award: at 76, five years in jail after 23-year trial | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 11
After 25 years of litigation, facing trial and attending hearings, a 76 years old retired government employee has been sentenced to undergo a five years jail term.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Kathua today VS Bhou awarded five years imprisonment and fine Rs 2000 to Avtar Krishan, 76, the then cashier of Agriculture Department, a resident of Kathua. He was facing investigating and trial from 1983 for misappropriation of government money worth more than Rs 57000.
According to the prosecution case that District Agriculture Office Kathua on March 24, 1983 lodged a complaint with the police station Kathua. The police registered a case under section 409 RPC (misappropriation) and after completion of the investigation presented a challan in the Court on November 12, 1983.
The then Chief Judicial Magistrate Kathua vide order March 15, 1984 returned the challan to CPO with the direction to bifurcate the challan in terms of section 234 CrPC and present the same. The prosecution on the direction of the Court bifurcate the challan into 14 cases and on August 26, 1985 presented challan against the accused for misappropriation of public money as government servant. The charge was framed against the accused on February 1, 1986 and thereafter prosecution led evidence. In the 36 pages judgment CJM Kathua Mr. VS Bhou after hearing CPO Ravinder Rao and Counsel for the accused Adv Arvind Gupta, observed that prosecution has been succeeded to prove that accused was entrusted money on different dates by the different employees of the District Agriculture Kathua and on different accounts accused misappropriated Rs 57716/- which was established beyond the shadow of any doubt and the accused convicted and sentenced to undergo five years imprisonment and fine Rs 2000/- after facing investigation and trial about 25 years. |
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