Rajasthan: Retired Govt doctor gets 3-year jail in bribery case
Kota: An Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) court here on Friday convicted a retired government doctor and his private assistant to three years in jail for taking bribe to recommend shifting of a murder accused inmate from Kota Central Jail to a hospital for treatment back in 2009.
Since the jail term is less than four years, the convicts were given chance on bail to appeal against the decision in an upper court within a month.
The ACB court sentenced the 62-year old the then doctor on duty in Kota Central Jail, and his private assistant Jugraj (36) to three years in jail for receiving a woman's wrist watch and a jerkin as bribe at his clinic in June 2009, Assistant Director Prosecution (ADP), ACB Court, Kota, Ashok Joshi said.
The court also imposed a penalty of Rs 1 lakh each, he added.
A city resident on June 1, 2009 lodged a complaint with the ACB and alleged that the doctor demanded bribe of a woman's wrist watch and a jerkin for the recommendation of medical care in hospital to his brother Radheyshyam Bhumliya, who was lodged in the jail under judicial custody in a murder case, he said.
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