LUCKNOW, Aug. 26 -- A special CBI court in Lucknow on Tuesday sentenced three accused, including two former bank officials, to rigorous imprisonment in two separate bribery cases involving Kisan Credit Card (KCC) loans. In the first case, Rakesh Chandra Thakur, then branch manager of Baroda UP Gramin Bank's Hariharpur branch in Sultanpur, was sentenced to five years' rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs.25,000 for demanding and accepting a Rs.6,000 bribe for releasing the first instalment of a Rs.4.25 lakh KCC loan. The CBI had registered the case on March 12, 2018, and caught Thakur red-handed while accepting the bribe during a trap operation. A chargesheet was filed on May 10, 2018, and charges were framed in December 2020. In the second case, Ravi Kumar Gupta, then assistant manager of Purvanchal Bank's Partawal Bazar branch in Maharajganj, and private person Indrajeet Singh alias Babu Saheb were sentenced to four years' rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs.40,000 each....