A former railway official from Agra has been sentenced to four years in prison by a Special CBI Court in Ghaziabad for demanding a bribe of Rs 30,000 from a contractor. Rafi Ahmad, who was the Chief Yard Master at Agra Cantt Railway Station, was found guilty under the Prevention of Corruption Act. Additionally, a penalty of Rs 10,000 was imposed on him.
The case was initiated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on July 4, 2015, after allegations surfaced that Rafi Ahmad had demanded the bribe from the contractor instead of reducing a penalty imposed on him for unsatisfactory work related to loading/unloading of Guards Line Boxes in trains. The CBI, after laying a trap, caught the accused red-handed while accepting Rs 5,000 as the first installment of the illegal gratification demanded.
Following the investigation, a chargesheet was filed by the CBI on November 24, 2015, against Rafi Ahmad. In a separate case, eight officials were sentenced to two years of rigorous imprisonment by a Special CBI Court in Dehradun for their involvement in a Rs 55 lakh fraud in the Public Works Department (PWD) in 2003. The convicted officials, from various positions within the PWD in Haridwar and Roorkee, were also fined a total of Rs 2.85 lakh.
