Senior Bihar govt officials ordered 10 years jail term

A Bihar court today sentenced nine senior state government officials to 10 years imprisonment in connection with a scam related to irregularities in the supply of foodgrains from Bihar State Food Corporation godown in Gaya.

The punishment was awarded by special Vigilance judge
AK Sinha, who also fined each of them Rs 44,000.
  
Sinha had on July 1 found them guilty of irregularities involving Rs 32 lakh between 2002 and 2008 and fixed July 5 as the date for announcing the quantum of punishment.

The state Vigilance Bureau had registered an FIR in this  connection on July 3, 2008 and chargesheeted them on September 17, 2008.