Kerala: Former commercial taxes officer sentenced to 4 years’ RI in bribery case

KOZHIKODE (KERALA): (Feb 28) A court here sentenced a former intelligence officer of the commercial taxes department to four years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh in a bribery case.

Kozhikode Vigilance Court Judge Shibu Thomas on Friday sentenced K Mohanan of Karamana, Thiruvananthapuram, who was serving as an intelligence officer at the commercial taxes office in Malappuram in 2017, after finding him guilty of accepting a bribe.

Though he was awarded sentences under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act, the total effective sentence is four years of rigorous imprisonment, with the court ordering that the sentences run concurrently.