AFTER 25 YEARS FINALLY TWO CWC OFFICIALS AND NINE OTHERS SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS RIGOROUS IMPRISONMENT.

New Delhi, 12 May, 2005

The Special Judge, Lucknow has convicted two Central Ware Housing Corporation (CWC) officials and nine private persons and awarded them two years rigorous imprisonment each with fine. The judge awarded two years rigorous imprisonment and total fine of Rs.25,000/- to Shri Vijender Singh, Technical Assistant, CWC and to Shri A.D.Dwivedi, Junior Technical Assistant, CWC and two years rigorous imprisonment with a total fine of Rs.25,000/- each to S/Shri Sharvan Kumar Aggarwal, Shiv Kumar Aggarwal, Hare Ram Pandey, Pradeep Kumar Kedia, Anant Mohan Katta, Jaishree Prasad, Jai Prakash Prasad, S.M. Aggarwal and Govind Kaviraj for causing financial loss to the public exchequer.

The case was registered on 23/10/1980 against Shri Vijender Singh, Technical Assistant, CWC, Gorakhpur, some fertilizer dealers and others on a complaint from the General Manager, CWC, New Delhi alleging that they had obtained illegal pecuniary advantage by showing ante-dated deliveries, after the upward revision in the fertilizers prices from zero hours on 8.6.1980 and caused financial loss to the Government of India. On completion of investigation, CBI filed a chargesheet on 22.12.1981 against three officials of the CWC and 16 private persons for various offences punishable under the IPC and the P.C. Act for causing wrongful loss of Rs.3,86,043/- to the Government. The court framed charges against the accused persons on 1.10.2001.

One public servant and two private persons had died during the course of the trial. Five private persons were acquitted giving them the benefit of doubt.