CHENNAI: A court in Chennai has sentenced a former
Indian Revenue Service
(IRS) officer to seven years rigorous
imprisonment
for taking bribes from recruitment agents to clear emigration certificates. The court has sentenced his aide to four years rigorous imprisonment.
The offence took place between 2007 and 2009 when the convict, R Sekar, was the protector of emigrants (PoE), responsible for granting emigration clearance to the intending emigrants as per the procedure prescribed under the
Emigration Act
.
The CBI arrested Sekar and Anwar Hussain, a recruiting agent, for collecting
bribe
amounts in the form of ‘speed money’ from various recruiting agents for clearance of emigration certificates submitted by the agents. Hussain collected the money and handed it over to Sekar and other public servants.
During the investigation, it was found that Sekar had handed over Rs 13 lakh to another person for arranging an engineering admission of his son. The money was retrieved.
The CBI filed the chargesheet against the accused after investigations. The CBI court in Chennai found the IRS officer and his aide guilty and convicted them.
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