New Delhi, Nov 23 (PTI) Two MCD officials and a private firm’s director, who were sentenced to four years in jail in the first conviction in a 2010 Commonwealth Games scam case, were on Monday granted bail by the Delhi High Court.
A bench of Justice Indermeet Kaur enlarged MCD Executive Engineer O P Mahla, the civic body’s tender clerk Gurcharan Singh and private firm Sweka Powertech Engineering Pvt Ltd’s Director J P Singh on bail asking them to furnish a personal bond of Rs 50,000 each to the satisfaction of the trial court.
Besides these three, the trial court had on September 2 awarded four-year imprisonment each to MCD Superintendent Engineer D K Sugan and Accountant Raju V and six years jail to the firm’s Managing Director T P Singh.
The case relates to CWG street lighting scam which had caused a loss of Rs 1.4 crore to the exchequer.
O P Mahla, Gurcharan Singh and J P Singh were sentenced for various offences including criminal conspiracy, cheating and using forged documents as genuine of IPC and section 13 (1)(d)(criminal misconduct by public servant by corrupt means and abusing position) of Prevention of Corruption Act.
The street lighting scam was one of the 10 graft cases relating to holding of the mega sports event in October 2010.
