India, April 7 -- Eighteen years after the Moga sex scandal made headlines, a special CBI court in Mohali on Monday sentenced four former Punjab Police officials, including then senior superintendent of police Devinder Singh Garcha and then superintendent of police (headquarters) Paramdip Singh Sandhu, to five years' imprisonment in the case registered against them under the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act in 2007.

CBI special judge, Mohali, Rakesh Gupta pronounced the verdict after convicting Garcha, Sandhu, then Moga city SHO Raman Kumar and then inspector Amarjit Singh under Sections 13(1)(d) and 13(2) of the PC Act on March 29.

Raman Kumar, who was also convicted under Section 384 (extortion) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), was aw...