KOCHI: A former NHAI(National Highways Authority of India) project director was sentenced to three years\u2019 simple imprisonment by the CBI Court for demanding and accepting a bribe for issuing a NOC to construct a hotel beside the NH in 2007. Bitla Venugopal, 52, of Chempukkavu, Thrissur was also slapped with a fine of Rs 2.5 lakh. The CBI Court found him guilty of offences under Section 7 and 13(2) of Prevention of Corruption(PC) Act. <\/p>\n
According to the prosecution, Venugopal had on February 20, 2007 issued a letter , to civic bodies that NOC from NHAI has to be obtained for any construction along NHAI. When the complainant Jose Kuruvinakkunel approached Thrissur Corporation for starting a three-star hotel at Mannuthy, the Corporation forwarded his application to NHAI.<\/p>\n
Later when the applicant contacted NHAI to inquire about the NOC, the accused demanded a bribe of `1. 5 lakh. The complaint then approached CBI DySP Nandakumar. CBI filed a chargesheet against accused in 2008. The trial in the case commenced in June 2016. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KOCHI: A former NHAI(National Highways Authority of India) project director was sentenced to three years\u2019 simple imprisonment by the CBI Court for demanding and accepting a bribe for issuing a NOC to construct a hotel beside the NH in 2007. Bitla Venugopal, 52, of Chempukkavu, Thrissur was also slapped with a fine of Rs 2.5 lakh. The CBI Court found him guilty of offences under Section 7 and 13(2) of Prevention of Corruption(PC) Act. According to the prosecution, Venugopal had on February 20, 2007 issued a letter , to civic bodies that NOC from NHAI has to be obtained for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,209,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}