Health worker gets 3 yrs jail for taking Rs 300 bribe
TNN | Feb 29, 2020, 04.20 AM IST
Trichy: The special court for prevention of corruption act (PCA) cases in Trichy on Friday convicted a woman multipurpose health worker of taking a bribe of Rs 300 from a pregnant woman for issuing her the government’s maternity assistance.
The judge handed out simple imprisonment for one and two years to T Kalaiselvi, 39, of Ponnagar for accepting gratification and criminal misconduct respectively. The judge also ordered her to pay Rs 1,000 each as fine for the two offences. The judge however released the woman on bail considering the quantum of punishment, which is below three years.
It was a 12-year-old case that came to an end on Friday. Kalaiselvi was a multipurpose health worker at the urban primary health centre (UPHC) in Periya Milaguparai. S Elizabeth Rani, 28, a pregnant woman from Edamalaipattipudhur, enlisted her help for getting financial assistance of Rs 6,000 under the Dr Muthulakshmi Reddy maternity assistance scheme, and got the first instalment of Rs 3000 before her delivery.
After the child was born, Kalaiselvi waited for the second instalment of Rs 3,000. However, instead of giving the cheque addressed to Elizabeth Rani, she demanded Rs 300 as bribe to hand it over. Unwilling to bribe her, the woman lodged a complaint with the directorate of vigilance and anti-corruption (DVAC) in Trichy on May 27, 2008. The team laid a trap the next day and caught Kalaiselvi red-handed at the PHC when she was accepting the money from Elizhabeth Rani.
TNN | Feb 29, 2020, 04.20 AM IST
Trichy: The special court for prevention of corruption act (PCA) cases in Trichy on Friday convicted a woman multipurpose health worker of taking a bribe of Rs 300 from a pregnant woman for issuing her the government’s maternity assistance.
The judge handed out simple imprisonment for one and two years to T Kalaiselvi, 39, of Ponnagar for accepting gratification and criminal misconduct respectively. The judge also ordered her to pay Rs 1,000 each as fine for the two offences. The judge however released the woman on bail considering the quantum of punishment, which is below three years.
It was a 12-year-old case that came to an end on Friday. Kalaiselvi was a multipurpose health worker at the urban primary health centre (UPHC) in Periya Milaguparai. S Elizabeth Rani, 28, a pregnant woman from Edamalaipattipudhur, enlisted her help for getting financial assistance of Rs 6,000 under the Dr Muthulakshmi Reddy maternity assistance scheme, and got the first instalment of Rs 3000 before her delivery.
After the child was born, Kalaiselvi waited for the second instalment of Rs 3,000. However, instead of giving the cheque addressed to Elizabeth Rani, she demanded Rs 300 as bribe to hand it over. Unwilling to bribe her, the woman lodged a complaint with the directorate of vigilance and anti-corruption (DVAC) in Trichy on May 27, 2008. The team laid a trap the next day and caught Kalaiselvi red-handed at the PHC when she was accepting the money from Elizhabeth Rani.
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