Chandigarh, March 24 -- A special court on Monday sentenced a clerk in the office of the UT deputy conservator of forests (DCF) to four years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) for accepting Rs.10,000 as bribe.

Convict Amritpal Singh, a resident of Sector 23, was posted as a junior assistant when he took bribe from complainant Kalyan Singh, a timber trader, for not taking action against him for cutting trees in Khuda Ali Sher in 2015.

The FIR was registered at the vigilance police station on June 29, 2015 under the Prevention of Corruption Act. According to the prosecution, the accused had demanded Rs.1 lakh from the complainant while threatening him with action for allegedly cutting trees without permission. The amount was later negotiated ...