Central Excise Superintendent Sentenced to Three Years RI
A former Central Excise Superintendent was convicted by a CBI Court on Friday, to three years Rigorous Imprisonment. The charge against the former Superintendent was that he accepted a forged monthly return from an assessee to help him file a wrong insurance claim for the goods destroyed in fire in a factory. The officer had retired two years ago as a Deputy Commissioner and now he has to spend three years in a jail wearing jail clothes and doing hard labour. And maybe the Department will retrospectively dismiss him from service. This case was registered in 2002 and it took ten years for the first court to convict the officer during which time he must have gone through hell. Hell may continue for another ten to twenty years, by which time he would be eighty years old. I am not a preacher or crusader against corruption, but realistically IS IT WORTH IT?