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Six get jail for cheating 1984 pogrom victim
Sikhs
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New Delhi: Six people were sent to
varying terms of rigorous imprisonment in jail by a court here after
it was proven that they had misappropriated funds meant for the 1984
anti-Sikh riot victims.
Special Judge Vinod Goel on Tuesday sentenced Surinder Singh Zaidi,
a Junior Management Officer in the State Bank of India to five
years' RI and a fine of Rs 55,000, after holding him guilty for
cheating, forgery, using forged document and under sections of the
Prevention of Corruption Act.
The court also sentenced Zaidi's four close associates, Ravinder
Sharma and his three sons - Ashwani Sharma, Praveen Sharma and
Prithvi Raj Sharma - to five years' RI and imposed a fine of Rs
22,000, Rs 9,000, Rs 10,000 and Rs 8,000 on them respectively.
The court also sentenced Hemchand Sharma, an accountant, to
three-and-half-years' RI and slapped a fine of Rs 10,000.
"The fact of this case leads me to remember the sad days of 1984
when our then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was killed by her
bodyguards and thereafter riots took place across the country and
thousands of innocent people were killed," the judge said in his
95-page judgement.
"In Delhi, the government had awarded a compensation of Rs 20,000 to
the relatives of the victims. But, instead of showing sympathy to
the widows of the riot victims of 1984, the convicts have added
insult to their injuries and fuel to the fire," the judge said.
The prosecution claimed that Zaidi and Hemchand, working in the SBI
Gazipur branch in 1988, along with some officials from the relief
cell of Deputy Commissioner, Delhi, cheated the riot victims.
8 August, 2007
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