5-year jail term for former V-C upheld in graft case
CHENNAI, DECEMBER 05, 2017 00:00 IST
DVAC registered a case in 2009
The Madras High Court on Monday upheld a trial court’s order convicting R Radhakrishnan, suspended Vice-Chancellor of the erstwhile Anna University of Technology (AUT-Coimbatore), to undergo five years imprisonment in a corruption case.
Radhakrishnan was the first Vice-Chancellor of a State university in Tamil Nadu to be suspended over seven years ago.
The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) had in 2009 registered a case against Radhakrishnan and others on charges of demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs. 40,000 from A. Senthilkumar, who was running Surya Industries in Erode, for supply of dual desk to the university. The agency said he had settled the bill due to supplier only after he paid the bribe amount.
The Chief Judicial Magistrate Court in Coimbatore (the special court for DVAC case), which examined witnesses, had in November last year, held Radhakrishnan guilty and sentenced him to undergo five years’ rigorous imprisonment under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
It also imposed a year’s imprisonment on another count but held that the sentences would run concurrently. Besides the trial judge had imposed a cumulatively penalty of Rs. 1.10 lakh on the accused.
Radhakrishnan moved the Madras High Court challenging his conviction .
Justice G Jayachandran dismissed Radhakrishnan’s plea and upheld the trial judge’s order awarding the five-year rigorous prison term and the penalty of Rs. 1.10 lakh.
CHENNAI, DECEMBER 05, 2017 00:00 IST
DVAC registered a case in 2009
The Madras High Court on Monday upheld a trial court’s order convicting R Radhakrishnan, suspended Vice-Chancellor of the erstwhile Anna University of Technology (AUT-Coimbatore), to undergo five years imprisonment in a corruption case.
Radhakrishnan was the first Vice-Chancellor of a State university in Tamil Nadu to be suspended over seven years ago.
The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) had in 2009 registered a case against Radhakrishnan and others on charges of demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs. 40,000 from A. Senthilkumar, who was running Surya Industries in Erode, for supply of dual desk to the university. The agency said he had settled the bill due to supplier only after he paid the bribe amount.
The Chief Judicial Magistrate Court in Coimbatore (the special court for DVAC case), which examined witnesses, had in November last year, held Radhakrishnan guilty and sentenced him to undergo five years’ rigorous imprisonment under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
It also imposed a year’s imprisonment on another count but held that the sentences would run concurrently. Besides the trial judge had imposed a cumulatively penalty of Rs. 1.10 lakh on the accused.
Radhakrishnan moved the Madras High Court challenging his conviction .
Justice G Jayachandran dismissed Radhakrishnan’s plea and upheld the trial judge’s order awarding the five-year rigorous prison term and the penalty of Rs. 1.10 lakh.
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