Former BDA junior town planner sentenced to 3 years in bribery case

A Bhubaneswar vigilance court on Friday convicted Kushal Chandra Chatterjee, a former Junior Town Planner with the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA), in a bribery case and sentenced him to three years of rigorous imprisonment.

Chatterjee, an outsourced employee, was charge-sheeted by Odisha Vigilance under Sections 13(2) read with 13(1) (d) and 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, for demanding and accepting a bribe from a complainant in exchange for approving the building plan of a residential plot.

The case was investigated by Vigilance officials, who had laid a trap after receiving the complaint. Chatterjee was then allegedly caught red-handed while accepting the illegal gratification, leading to his prosecution.

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The Special Judge, Vigilance, Bhubaneswar, after examining the evidence, pronounced him guilty and sentenced him to undergo three years of rigorous imprisonment along with a fine.