Srinagar, Aug. 14 -- Srinagar- The Special Judge Anti-Corruption here on Friday sentenced a former Executive Engineer of Rural Engineering Wing (REW) Ganderbal, and an orderly of the department to four years' simple imprisonment each in a 2014 bribery and criminal conspiracy case.

The court presided over by Tasleem Arief convicted Ghulam Nabi Dar, the then Executive Engineer, and Mohd Shameem Parrah, then an orderly in the REW Ganderbal office, under provisions of the J&K Prevention of Corruption Act and Section 120-B of the State Ranbir Penal Code.

According to the prosecution case, a complainant had approached the Vigilance Organisation Kashmir (now Anti-Corruption Bureau) alleging that Dar had demanded a bribe of Rs 10,000 for passin...