Srinagar, April 13 -- Srinagar- A Special Anti-Corruption Court in Srinagar on Monday convicted former Patwari in a 2007 bribery case, sentencing him to one year of imprisonment and imposing a fine of Rs 10,000 for accepting a Rs 3,000 bribe to process a land mutation.

In a statement, a spokesperson said the special Judge, Anti-Corruption Court Srinagar, Tasleem Arif, today pronounced the judgment in case FIR No. 20/2007 of P/S VOK (now ACB). In the said case, the accused, Ghulam Qadir Bhat (then Patwari Halqa Khushipora Zainkot), son of Mohammad Ismail Bhat, resident of Narparistan Fateh Kadal, Srinagar, has been sentenced to one year of imprisonment along with a fine of Rs 10,000.

He said, the case, FIR No. 20/2007 under Section 5(2) ...