Chandigarh, Aug. 21 -- A Special CBI court has sentenced former senior assistant Shyam Singh Chauhan to four years of rigorous imprisonment in a 2017 bribery case, observing that corruption by public servants is "paralysing" public institutions and requires deterrent punishment.

Special judge Bhawna Jain awarded Chauhan four-years rigorous imprisonment under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (demanding and accepting an undue advantage/bribe by a public servant) and another four years under Section 13(1)(d), punishable under Section 13(2) of the Act (criminal misconduct by a public servant).

The court also imposed a fine of Rs.10,000 under each section, with six months simple imprisonment in default of payment of each f...