CBI court awards three-year jail to railway officer for housing loan forgery

Bhubaneswar, July 14 (UNI) A Special CBI Court in Bhubaneswar today sentenced a Station Superintendent in Operation Section to three-year rigorous imprisonment on the charge of fraudulently availing a housing loan from a nationalised bank by furnishing forged salary slips and an employer’s undertaking for the 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 was a public servant in the 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”

Dash stands charged for commission of alleged offences U/s.471/420 of the IPC. 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 R.I. for a period of one year, the judgment ruled.