Panchkula, Sept. 28 -- A local court has awarded one-year rigorous imprisonment to three persons from Raipur Rani in a Rs.2.04-crore cheating case involving the Haryana State Warehousing Corporation (HSWC).

The convicts - Satish Kumar, Ajay Mangal and Kiran Singla - were booked under Sections 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code in November 2017. The court had held them guilty for commission of offence punishable under Section 406 IPC read with Section 120B IPC on September 16. Along with the jail term, the trio has also been directed to pay a fine of Rs.10,000 each.

The court observed that the acts of the convicts caused a loss of Rs.2.04 crore to the HSWC. Therefore, no...