New Delhi, Sep 24
A special CBI court in Patna on Wednesday convicted two officers of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) for misappropriating seized goods worth Rs 24 lakh and sentenced them to one year of rigorous imprisonment (RI).
Both officers were also directed to pay a fine of Rs 50,000 each.
The case dates back to 2009 when CBI, acting on source information, registered a case alleging that Anand Kumar, then Deputy Commandant of the same battalion, along with Jha, Sarkar and others, entered into a criminal conspiracy to fraudulently and dishonestly divert seized goods for personal gain.
The verdict underscores the judiciary’s zero tolerance for corruption within security forces tasked with guarding India’s borders, where cases of misappropriation of seized goods have been a recurring concern.